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HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

No. 1. 



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BEING A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION 



ABOUT THE LORD OUR GOD; 



COMPRISING 



TALES, STORIES, TEXTS, ILLUSTRATIONS, HYMNS, 
CATECHISMS, EXERCISES, ETC., 



ADAPTED TO 



YOUNG CLASSES AND TO HOME TEACHING. 



J 

MARY H^RT^JSY G-ILL, 

Author op " Sister Mary's Stories, 1 " Ellen Carrol," " Cousin Clara," 
"Ann Conoyer," etc. 



NEW-YORK: 

AXSON D. F. RANDOLPH, 770 BROADWAY, 

Corner of Ninth Street. 

1864. 






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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 18C4, by 

MARY HARVEY GILL, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the 
District of New-Jersey. 



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TO PUEOHASEES 



Subject and Aim. 

The following Course of Lessons, as the Table of Contents v/ill 
show, is an endeavor to present to little children, Sunday by Sun- 
day, the Lord our God in his greatness and loveliness, as revealed 
in the sacred Scriptures. The aim and hope is, that, by his 
grace, they may see Him spiritually, fear, love, and trust him, and 
be " changed into the same image, from glory to glory," though 
it be "as shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew." 

Design and Use. 

They are designed for Infant Schools, Introductory De- 
partments, and Home Teaching ; and are equally adapted to 
Schools with One Session or with Two. 

In Infant Schools, A Year in the Infant School serves as a 
Manual of Instruction, Anecdote, etc., for the teacher; and 
Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, in paper covers, as a study 
and singing-book for the scholars, enabling them to commit to 
memory, at home, during the week, texts and a hymn which 
embody the leading points of the teacher's instruction on the 
Sabbath. Pupils who read may also use it in school as a singing- 
book. 

In Infant or Introductory Departments, arranged in classes, 
A Year in the Infant School may be used as an aid to the Super- 
intendent and the Teachers, while Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest is the scholars' text-book. 

In Home Teaching the parents or friends may follow the 
course laid down in A Year in the Infant School, and make use 



IV PREFACE. 

of the teachings, narratives, etc., either neglecting the infant 
school methods or adopting them, as may seem expedient ; while 
the children may learn the lessons -in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest, or parts of them, according to their age. 

Evangelical and Unsectarian. 
A Year in the Infant School, with the Texts and Hymns ap- 
pended, first appeared in the Sunday-School Times, under the 
editorship of Professor John S. Hart. It had previously been 
laid before the Committee of the American Sunday-School 
Union, Philadelphia, who expressed their willingness to pub- 
lish it with the imprint of that Society ; but owing to some diffi- 
culty about arrangements, it was withdrawn. These facts are 
mentioned to show that the lessons give only the views held in 
common by all evangelical Christians. 

Revision, etc. 

While the weekly numbers of this Infant School Course were 
coming out in the newspaper, the author received some valuable 
suggestions, which she has heeded in revising the work ; and 
also some very encouraging letters from teachers who were using 
the lessons and putting them to the practical test. Many of the 
Sessions have been abridged; some new matter has been added. 
In short, it is hoped that the Course, as revised, will be found an 
improvement upon the newspaper series. 

The Second Year in Infant School, (containing, like the 
present work, twenty-six subjects, arranged in Fifty-two Sessions,) 
will be published hereafter, and will illustrate the latter lessons 
in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest. These two Years com- 
plete the full course, while each separately is a connected course 
in itself. The Year in the Infant School introduces the 
divine attributes usually specified, and teaches of the Saviour 
and the Holy Spirit in connection with almost every topic. 

Texts and Hymns for the Youngest contains fifty-two sub- 
jects, and can be used with both Years. 

M. H. G. 



CONTESTS AND INDEX. 



First Session — Pages 3-6. 
We pray to the Lord our God. He is " OUR FATHER WHO 

15 IN HEAVEN.' 7 

Second Session — Pages 6, V. 

First Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 3-5 
including the Lord's Prayer, Catechism on Mark 12 : 32 and Gen- 
esis 1:1; Hymn 1 : I Have a Father in the Promised Land ; 
verse : When I look up to yonder sky. 

Suggestions to teachers. 

Third Session — Pages 7-10. 

"FOR JESUS' SAKE" God hears our prayers and helps us. 
Who Jesus is. God knows what we want, and he knows how to 
do it. 

The Woman in the Whirlwind. 

Fourth Session — Page 11. 

Second Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 5-7, 
including, " Now I lay me down to sleep," Catechism on John 

16 : 23 ; Hymn 2 : Jesus, who lives above the sky. 
Suggestions. 

Fifth Session — Pages 11-14. 
OMNISCIENCE. The Bible. Samuel. How to pray in In- 
fant School. Holy Bible, book divine. 

Sixth Session — Page 14. 

Third Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 7-8, 
including Catechism on 2 Timothy 3 : 16 ; Hymn 3 : When my 
teacher reads the Bible. 

Remarks. 



VI CONTENTS AND INDEX. 

Seventh Session — Pages 15-18. 

GOD IS THE SOUKCE OF LL?E. Fanny and her Doll; 
God knows best. The Child in the Well. Prayer for the Body. 
The Lord Jesus gives life everlasting. 

Eighth Session — Page 18. 
Fourth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 8, 9, 
including Catechism on John 5 : 26, Genesis 2 : V, Acts 17 : 25, 
Daniel 5 : 23 ; Hymn 4 : Little, gentle breath. Prayer for the 
Body. 

Ninth Session — Pages 19-25. 

OMNIPOTENCE. God's Power in Nature. Winds and 
Waves. The Captain's Little Daughter. Jesus on the Lake. 
Lightning and Thunder. Volcanoes and Earthquakes. Etna and 
the Wall of Catania. Lisbon in 1^5 5. Terra Firma. 

Tenth Session — Pages 25, 26. 

Fifth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 9, 10, 
including Catechism on Job 9 : 4, and Mark 4 : 39 ; Hymn 5 : 
God rides the roaring winds. 

Remarks. Herculaneum and Pompeii. 

Eleventh Session — Pages 26-32. 
OMNIPOTENCE. God exalts and abases. He is the MOST 
HIGH. Nebuchadnezzar. Saul. David. 

Twelfth Session — Page 32. 
Sixth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 10, 1 1, 
including Catechism on Psalm 16 : 1 and Daniel 4 : 35 ; Hymn 
6 : Rejoice, the Lord is King ! 

Thirteenth Session — Pages 33-37. 
OMNIPOTENCE. God's Power to Kill and to Save Alive, 
Peter and the Angel of the Lord. Herod and the Angel of the 
Lord. Hymn before worship. The Apostles. 

Fourteenth Session — Pages 37, 38. 
Seventh Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 
11, 12, including Catechism on Deuteronomy 32 : 39 ; Hymn 7: 
Oh ! do not be discouraged. 



CONTENTS AND INDEX. Vll 

The fingers used as a mnemonic. Names of the Apostles. 
Hymn 68 : Oh ! we love to come. 

Fifteenth Session — Pages 38-40. 

OMNIPRESENCE. Our Father is in Heaven. What John 
saw beyond the sky. Note on chanting. 

Sixteenth Session — Page 41. 
Eighth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 

12, 13, including the Lord's Prayer ; Hymn 8 : Hush, little 
Christian child ! 

Seventeenth Session — Pages 41-45. 

OMNIPRESENCE. God is everywhere. God is a Spirit. 
God is with us. Illustrations. 

Eighteenth Session — Page 45. 

Ninth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 

13, 15, including Catechism on Jeremiah 23 : 23, 24, John 4 : 24, 
Psalm 139 : 18 ; Hymn 9 : When little Samuel woke ; Rhymes 
for Night : I will not fear, for God is near. 

Nineteenth Session — Pages 45-50. 
OMNIPRESENCE. You are never " all alone." Regina. 

Twentieth Session — Pages 51, 52. 

OMNIPRESENCE. Tenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest, page 15, including Catechisms on Proverbs 15 : 3, 
and Jeremiah 23 : 23, 24 ; Hymn 10 ; Alone, yet not alone 
am I. 

You can not get away from God. Do not sin. Jonah. 

Twenty-first Session — Pages 53-56. 

OMNIPRESENCE. God watches you ; please him. Jesus 
did so always. " Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. " 
Incidents in the life of Christ. 

Twenty-second Session — Pages 56-58. 

OMNISCIENCE. Eleventh Lesson in Texts and Hymns for 
the Youngest, pages 16, 17, including Catechism on John 8 : 29 ; 
Hymn 11:1 want to be like Jesus. 

Pleasing God. James P. W. 



V1U CONTENTS AND INDEX. 

Twenty-Third Session — Pages 58-62. 

ETERNITY. God is "from everlasting to everlasting." 
Illustrations. The Orphan's Letter. 

Twenty-fourth Session — Page 63. 
Twelfth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 
17, 18, including Catechism on Psalm 90 : 2, Genesis 1:1, Isaiah 
44 : 6, Psalm 27 : 10 ; Hymn 12 : The watch is ticking, ticking ; 
with chorus, We are passing away. 

Twenty-fifth Session — Pages 63-67. 
ETERNAL HOLINESS. Eternal and Perfect. Visions of the 
Apostle John and the Prophet Isaiah. 

Twenty-sixth Session — Page 67. 

Thirteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, page 
19, including Catechism on Deuteronomy 32 : 4, Revelation 4:8; 
Isaiah 6:3; Hymn 13 : Holy, holy, holy One. 

Twenty-seventh Session — Pages 67-72. 

Christ Jesus is our eternal and perfect Saviour. Peter in 
the presence of the Lord. Isaiah. Our message. 

Twenty-eighth Session — Pages 72. 
Fourteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 20, 21, including Catechism on John 1 : 1-14, Daniel 9 : 24, 
Revelation 1:18, Hebrews 7 : 25, Revelations 22 : 17 ; Hymn 
14 : Oh ! to come to thee ! 

Twenty-ninth Session — Pages 73, 74. 
God is to be reverenced. Practical application of several 
previous Sessions and of Hymn 8. 

Thirtieth Session — Page 74. 
Fifteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 
21, 22, including Catechism on the Lord's Prayer and the Third 
Commandment ; Hymn 15 : When daily I kneel down to pray. 
Review suggested. 



CONTENTS AND INDEX. IX 

Thirty-first Session — Pages 75-80. 

HOLINESS. God's Moral Government. He loves virtue 
and rewards it. The Shunamite. Joseph and Freddy. Mr. 
Marsh and his little daughters. The Three Brothers. 

Thirty-second Session — Page 81. 

Sixteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 
22, 23, including Catechism on Psalm 11 : 7 3 Isaiah 3 : 10, Mat- 
thew 6 : 20 ; Hymn 16 : There is a land above. 

Thirty-third Session — Pages 81-84. 

HOLINESS. Retribution. The Saviour's Reward. Satan's 
Doom. 

Thirty-fourth Session — Page 88. 

Seventeenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 23, 24, including Catechism on Psalm 11 : 7, 5, John 12 : 
26, Matthew 25 : 41 ; Hymn 17; There is a dreadful hell ; with, 
Oh ! there will be mourning, 



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Remarks to the teacher. 



Thirty-fifth Session — Pages 84-92. 
HOLINESS. Moral Government. God hates sin, and pun- 
ishes for it. Adam and Eve. The Flood. Sodom. The Sun- 
day-school Girl ; a recent fact. 

Thirty-sixth Session — Page 92. 
Eighteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, page 

25, including Catechism on Psalm 11 : 7, 5, Jeremiah 44 : 4, 
Matthew 25 : 46 ; Hymn 18 : Sinners, turn, why will ye die ? 

Thirty-seventh Session — Pages 92-98. 
HOLINESS. Christ Jesus suffered for our sins. 

Thirty-eighth Session — Page 99. 
Nineteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 

26, 27, including Catechism on 1 Peter 2 : 22, 21, 1 Peter 3 : 18, 
1 Corinthians 15:3; Hymn 19 : Jesus ! blessed Jesus ! suffer- 
ing so for me ! 



X CONTENTS AND INDEX. 

Thirty-ninth Session — Pages 99-103. 
LOVING KINDNESS. " Daily Bread." Elijah and the 
Ravens. The Sick Minister. Manna, the " Bread from heaven." 
Our daily bread. 

Fortieth Session — Page 103. 

Twentieth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, pages 
27, 28, including Catechism on " Give us this day our daily bread ;" 
Hymn 20 : Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. 

A Thanksgiving to be used at meals, or said every evening. 

Forty-first Session — Pages 103-106. 

LOVING-KINDNESS. God feeds all that lives. God 
gives us all that we eat or drink. Picture lesson. Water. 
The Bread of Life. 

Forty-second Session — Page 107. 

Twenty-first Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 28-32, including Catechism on 1 John 4 : 16 and Psalm 
145 : 15 ; Hymn 21 ; Picture lesson in verse about Food. 

Suggestions. 

Forty-third Session — Pages 107-111. 
LOVING-KINDNESS. God gives us all our clothing. 
God clothes the earth and all its living creatures. Pic- 
ture lesson. The Snowbird's Song, a poem. 

Forty-fourth Session — Page 111. 
Twenty-second Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 32-36, including Catechism on 1 John 4 : 16, Matthew 6 : 
30, Psalm 145 : 9 ; Hymn 22 ; Picture lesson in verse about 
Clothing. 

Forty-fifth Session — Pages 112-115. 
John 6th chapter. Christ feeding the multitude. Christ the 
Bread of Life. 

Forty-sixth Session — Page 115. 
Twenty-third Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 36, 37, including Catechism on John 6 : 35-47, 48 ; Hymn 
23 : 'Twas to save our souls from dying. 



CONTENTS AND INDEX. XI 

Forty-seventh Session — Pages 115-119. 

John 6. Suicide by starvation. The Apostles' Belief. How 
to be saved. The Insane Patient* 

Forty-eighth Session — Pages 119, 120. 

Twenty-fourth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 37, 38, including Catechism on John 3 : 16, 1 John 5:11, 
12; Hymn 24: There's a Friend above all others; chorus, Oh! 
how he loves ! 

The Apostles' Belief ; questions and answers on John 6 : 
68, 69. 

Forty-ninth Session — Pages 120-123. 

Drinks. " Pure milk n for babes. Motion. Growth. " The 
sincere milk of the Word." "Be ye doers of the word." 
Christian growth. The Growing Song, an exercise. We won't 
give up the Bible. 

Fiftieth Session — Page 123. 

Twenty-fifth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 38, 39, including Catechism on 1 Peter 2 : 2, James 1 : 23 ; 
Hymn 25 : The Growing Song. 

Fifty-first Session — Pages 124, 128. 
Drinks. Water for the large and strong. The Robin's 
Morning Song. Fresh water constantly supplied. The Rock in 
Horeb. " That rock was Christ." The Holy Spirit. 

Fifty-second Session — Pages 128, 129. 

Twenty-sixth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, 
pages 40, 41, including Catechism on 1 Corinthians 10 : 4, John 
6:63; Water Song : Some love to drink from the foamy brink ; 
also Hymn 27 : The Living Water ; The Shower, an exercise. 

Occasional Lesson— Pages 130-132. 
Offerings. The Alabaster Box. 



TO TEAOIEES. 



The following Lessons were thrown into their present form to 
meet the wants and wishes of several of my young friends who 
had written me from time to time, asking for advice and aid in 
commencing infant schools. This must be my apology for the 
minuteness with which the method of conducting school appears 
in the Sessions, and for the numerous suggestions which, to an 
experienced teacher, may seem needless if not arrogant. 

Arrangement. 

The Sessions of this Course follow each other in pairs. In 
the former of each pair, new truths are introduced, illustrated, 
and applied ; in the latter, the same truths are fixed in the memo- 
ry by means of Texts and Hymns. In Two Session schools the 
former will occupy the morning and the latter the afternoon. In 
One Session schools they can be taught on successive Sabbaths. 

Sessions First, Third, Fifth, etc. 
The Sessions in which new truths are introduced (namely, 
the First, Third, and so forth,) are intended to be examined and 
dwelt upon by the teacher during her hours of previous prepara- 
tion, not to be read aloud from the book in school-time. Chil- 
dren listen best to those who talk to them naturally, without re- 
ferring to book or paper. Indeed, little children will not listen 
long to any reading. These Sessions, however, are so fully 
written out, that teachers may, if they choose, impress them 
upon their own minds by frequent reading, and then address them 
to the scholars nearly as in the book, (which can be kept in hand 



TO TEACHERS. Xlll 

to serve as a prompter.) Many, no doubt, will look over the 
Manual only to gather hints, anecdotes, verses, etc., which they 
will weave into their own better teachings. 

Sessions Second, Fourth, ^etc. 

Every alternate " Session," (as the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and 
so forth,) is devoted chiefly to hearing and teaching the Texts 
and the Hymn of a Lesson in the Scholar's Book, and to singing. 

The Scholar's Book. 

The Scholar's Book, entitled, Texts and Hymns for the Young- 
est, is bound into this volume at the back. It is also furnished 
in paper covers, at a low price, for the use of the pupils, every 
one of whom should have a copy. The Texts and the Hymn to 
be heard and repeated in any Session should be taught at home 
to the children during the previous week. By engaging parents 
and friends to help them to learn their Sunday-school lesson, we 
remove the objection that Sunday-schools prevent family instruc- 
tion, and establish a beautiful system of cooperation, and of 
united interest and prayer. However, as our success here will be 
only partial, it will be necessary not only to hear the lesson but 
to teach it more or less in school by repetition and singing. The 
speed or slowness, as well as the ease and pleasure, with which 
the school advances in the course will be in proportion to the 
number of scholars who learn or are taught at home. Faithful 
and judicious visits to their friends, (and the establishment of a 
meeting to pray for the children,) will aid greatly in carrying out 
the plan. 

Good progress can be made, nevertheless, without home study, 
by means of repetition in school, and the Text and Hymn Book 
will be valued and used by the children whether the parents co- 
operate systematically or not. 

How much to give for one Home Lesson. 

Three texts in each lesson, and one hymn, or part of it, will 
be enough to require of most infant scholars. Teachers can 
mark in the scholar's book what they think best. 



XIV TO TEACHEES. 



The Catechisms. 



The Catechisms are only questions and answers introducing 
and explaining the texts. The teacher asks these questions in 
school as a sort of examination on the instruction given in the 
preceding Session. After hearing what the children will say, 
she gives the reply in the book, and they repeat it once or twice. 
As a general rule, they are not to commit these answers to 
memory, either in school or out; it is too much for the majority 
of them ; the texts and the hymn will suffice. The experiment 
has, however, been tried, with success, of having a higher class 
in Infant School, called 

The Catechism Class, or, The Readers' Class. 

Those children who can read are called out, and then seated 
together on the top row. The higher class thus formed learns 
the whole of a Lesson in the Scholar's Book at home, and not 
merely the Texts and the Hymn. This class remains a few 
minutes after the others are dismissed and recites. A separate 
library, composed of larger and prettier books, is provided for 
them. Whoever knows the lesson will receive one of these books. 
Whoever says it imperfectly has his choice to stay and study it 
till he deserves a large book, or to take one of the small books 
and go. The former is usually preferred. This system, steadily 
pursued, gives the scholars the habit of learning a Sunday-school 
lesson before they are transferred to the higher department. It 
also affords opportunities for conversation with the older scholars 
while impressions are yet fresh upon their hearts. 

Reviewing. 

Frequent reviewing of the Texts and Hymns is essential. This 
should be especially attended to in the practising Sessions, the 
Second, Fourth, Sixth, etc. 

Time required to complete the Course. 

As implied in the title, this course of lessons is prepared for 
one year. Two Session schools may complete it earlier, but will 
find material in the Scholar's Book for additional topics. Ordi- 



TO TEACHERS. XV 

narily, there is no advantage, but quite the contrary, in hastening 
from one subject to another ; " for precept must be upon precept, 
precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, 
and there a little." 

Good Hints by Newcomb. 

" It is expected that, in all the exercises, great latitude will be 
taken by the teacher. It will often happen that the conversation 
and inquiries of the children will lead to a digression from the 
course prescribed in the lesson ; and so, also, the teacher's own 
mind will probably often lead out in a similar manner. In such 
cases she should not suffer herself to be cramped by the book, 
but follow these suggestions, so far as they are profitable and in- 
teresting. She will, also, frequently find that the prescribed 
course will fail to engage the attention of the children ; in which 
case she must strike off into something else that will awaken 
their attention ; and when they become interested perhaps she 
may return again to the lesson. But she will be successful only as 
she goes to the class in a 'prayerful, tender, tranquil frame of 
mind." 

Pardee also has a very suggestive chapter in his little work, 
The Sunday-School Worker Assisted, page 34, The Infant 
School. 

Calling the Roll. 

The name, age, and residence of the scholars should be ascer- 
tained the first time they are seen in the school, and entered in a 
Superintendent's Roll Book. Every week their attendance should 
be registered in this book, with a view to visiting the absent. 
(New scholars should also be visited the first week they come.) 
If the school is small, it is well to call the roll in commencing, in- 
troducing remarks and hymns about punctuality ; but if the school 
be at all numerous, this consumes the time and fritters away at- 
tention, and may occasion incurable restlessness. A very good 
plan is for one of the two assistants silently to make a list, dur- 
ing the session, of all present, which the teacher afterwards trans- 
fers to the Roll Book, and observes who were absent. This makes 
it needless to call the roll at all. 



XVI TO TEACHERS. 

Dismissing. 

Dismissing, in a large school, is attended with three perils : 
Dissipating good impressions, disorder, losing some of the small- 
est children. The following method guards against these evils 
and saves time by combining the changing of library books and 
the collection of offerings with the dismissing : 

An efficient assistant seats herself beside the library. The 
teacher carries the collection-box to each child in turn, sending 
the child, as she does so, first to the hat-pegs, then to the assist- 
ant at the library, who sees him safely disposed of before she at- 
tends to the next. Meanwhile, the other assistant keeps a general 
oversight of the gallery, entries, and stairways. The children un- 
derstand that whoever leaves his seat before the teacher comes 
to him will be sent back to it, and that books and papers are 
given only to those who behave well. 

Tunes. 

References to suitable tunes will be found in Texts and Hymns 
for the Youngest, at the head of most of the hymns. The 
Oriola, by William B. Bradbury, No. 421 Broome street, New- 
York ; the Child's Hosanna, and the Anniversary Hymns, or 
Child's Sunday-School Music Book, of the American Sunday- 
School Union, 1122 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and 599 Broad- 
way, New- York ; the Sabbath-School Bell, Nos. 1 and 2, by Horace 
Waters, 333 Broadway, New- York, furnish appropriate music. 

Pictures. 

Large pictures on Scriptural and Moral subjects, though not 
indispensable in infant schools, are extremely useful, especially 
those which represent scenes in the life of our Saviour. They 
should be mounted on pasteboard or on rollers. 

Suitable colored engravings can be obtained at A. D. P. Ran- 
dolph's, 683 Broadway, namely: The good colored lithographs 
published under the direction of the Committee of General Lit- 
erature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting 
Christian Knowledge, London. This series includes, (besides Old 
Testament pictures and others on Natural History, etc.,) the fol- 
lowing subjects : 



TO TEACHERS. XV11 

The Birth of Christ, The Prodigal Son, 

Christ announced to the Shepherds, The Pharisee and Publican, 

The Wise Men, Christ Blessing Children, 

John Baptist Preaching, Christ Feeding the Multitude, 

Christ with the Doctors, The Tribute Money, 

Jesus returning with his Parents, Christ Cleansing the Temple, 

Christ Healing the Sick, Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, 

The Sick of the Palsy brought to Christ, Judas' Betrayal, 

Jesus Curing the Blind, Christ Mocked, 

The Widow of Nain, The Crucifixion, 

The Woman of Samaria, Peter and John at the Sepulchre, 

The Good Samaritan, The Journey to Emmaus : 

And several others taken from the book of Acts. 

Ten large colored lithographs, American Sunday-School Union, 
mostly Old Testament subjects. Price, 50 cents apiece. 

Ten very large and handsome colored lithographs, English, in- 
cluding among others, a fine view of Calvary and the Crucifixion, 
with Jerusalem in the background. 

Forty colored wood cuts, inferior, called The Cottage Wall 
Prints, English ; including, among others, The Infant Saviour, 
Christmas Carol, Presentation in the Temple, Questioning the 
Doctors, The Good Shepherd, The Great Physician, the Light of 
the World, The Raising of Lazarus, The Prophecy on the Mount, 
The Last Supper, The Agony in the Garden, The Man of Sorrows, 
Bearing the Cross, Crucifixion, Ascension. 

Picture Lessons on Moral Truths illustrated ; ten colored 
plates, from the London Religious Tract Society. 

Twelve beautiful engravings, printed in oil colors, seventeen by 
thirteen inches. 

The Picture Lessons on Food and Clothing in this Manual refer 
to the accompanying wood cuts ; but enlarged colored copies on 
cardboard or cloth, held up before the school during recitation 
give much greater vivacity to the exercise. 

M. H. G. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL : 



BEING A COURSE OP 



INSTRUCTION ABOUT THE LORD OUR GOD. 



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Jroi Sessmrt. 



SUBJECT. 

WE PRAY TO GOD. HE IS OUR HEAVENLY 

FATHER. 

First Part. " God is our Father." 
Teacher. "Our Father who art in heaven." Do you 
ever say that ? Let me hear you. 

[Those who know the Lord's Prayer repeat it.l 

Teacher. Do you ever say any thing else to your Heav- 
enly Father ? What do you ask him ? [Replies.] 

Teacher. Who is our Heavenly Father ? The Lord our 
God, He is our Heavenly Father. Say that after me. 
The Lord our God, — He is our Heavenly Father. [The School 

repeats it several times.] 

Teacher. When the minister prays, in church, whom is 
he speaking to ? Who else have you seen praying ? How 
did they do ? Were they speaking to any body ? Whom 
were they talking to ? Do you think he heard them ? 
When we pray to him, does he hear us ? Say this : 

" God is in heaven — can he hear 
A feeble prayer like mine ? 
Yes, thoughtful child, thou need'st not fear, 
He listeneth to thine." 

[The children repeat it, line by line.] 

Teacher. We will sing this: "I have a Father in the 
promised land." 



4 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

[If the Scholars know it, they sing it with the Teacher. If not, she tells them 
one line at a time, and they try to sing it with her ; singing in this way the 
first verse only, over and over again, tilLthey know both words and tune.] 

Second Part. " Our Father " is a good Father. He 
made and provides for all. 

Teacher. Our kind, good, Heavenly Father ! It is he 
who makes the sun shine every day, and makes it all light 
about us that we can see. And then, at night, when we 
are sleepy, he takes the sun away and lets us sleep and 
rest ; but every morning he is sure to bring it back to us 
and make all light again. 

At night he sets the fair moon in the sky, and all the 
bright stars. He makes the pretty changing colors there 
in the evening. He makes the rainbow. He sends down 
the showers, and the pure white snow. He waters all the 
ground, and makes the plants grow. He brings up the 
sweet flowers. He makes the red strawberries come ; and 
the peaches, and the apples and pears, and the grapes ! 

He takes care of every living thing. He does not let the 
little wild birds starve. He gives them seeds, and berries, 
and all they want. He is such a good Father! and Ho 
can do every thing ! 

God made the sky that looks so blue, 

God made the grass so green ; 
He made the flowers that smell so sweet, 

In pretty colors seen. 

God made the sun that shines so bright, 

And gladdens all I see ; 
It comes to give us heat and light — 

How thankful should we be ! 

God made the pretty bird to fly ; 

How sweetly has she sung ; 
And though she goes so very high, 

She won't forget her young. 

God made me too, and all I love ; 
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He made the glorious ones above, 
And all who love me here. 

God made the cow to give nice milk, 

The horse for me to use ; 
I'll treat them kindly for his sake, 

Nor dare his gifts abuse. 

God made the water for my drink ; 

He made the fish to swim ; 
He made the trees to bear nice fruit : 

Oh ! how I should love him ! 

[The children, after hearing the Teacher recite this hymn, repeat it after 
her, line by line, and then sing it with her by lining.] 

TEACHER. [Holding a Bible open at the place.] This IS Our first 
Sunday, and I will teach you now the first verse in 
the Bible. It is written in the first book of the Bible, 
Genesis — in which Book? [They repeat, " Genesis"] — in the first 
chapter — which chapter ? [They repeat, " the first chapter "] — and 
the first verse — which verse ? [They repeat, "the first verse,"] — all 
first things, — and it tells us what God did in the begin- 
ning. These are the words ; say them after me: "In the 
beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In the 
beginning [They repeatl God created [They repeat] the heavens 
[They repeat] and the earth, [They repeat.] That is written in 
Genesis 1 chapter, 1 verse. Say after me : Genesis 1:1. 
— In the beginning — God created — the heavens — and the 
earth. [N.B. — In this, and in other exercises like it, which are to fol- 
low, the dash marks the parts into which the sentences should be broken for 

repetition.] "Created" means "made;" in the beginning 
God made every thing. When you go home, ask your 
friends to open the Bible at Genesis 1:1, and hear you 
say this text. 

[The children repeat after the Teacher till they know both the place and the 
words.] 

AN EXERCISE IN RISING AND SITTING. 

[The Teacher is always on the watch to prevent weariness or languor before 
it shows itself. If the state of the atmosphere is unfavorable, she changes it 
as soon and as prudently as possible. If stillness and attention are tending 
to fatigue, she introduces some muscular exercise not unsuited to the time 
and the occasion. For example :] 



6 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

Teacher. We will stand up when we sing; but you 
must learn to rise all at the same moment, and just when 
I give you the sign. To do that, you will have to watch 
this hand of mine, for I shall not say, "Rise," I shall not 
speak. I shall raise this hand up, so ; and when the hand 
goes up, you are all to go up, as if you were fastened to 
it ; and when it comes down again, you are all to sit down. 
Now, watch ; whoever is not looking at this hand will be 
too late. Watch the hand — one, two, three — [She raises it 

suddenly, and after a brief pause brings it down gently, repeating the action 
at irregular intervals, and soon without counting. This drill is continued till 
the scholars all move at once. If properly conducted, it amuses and refresh- 
es, as well as disciplines ; but no rudeness or boisterous mirth is to be toler- 
ated in the least degree. This exercise might be introduced in the above be 
tween the first part and the second, or between the last hymn and the text, 
or in both places.] 



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Teacher. We will begin by saying the Lord's Prayer to- 
gether. Say it after me. 

[As she proceeds, the children, kneeling or standing, follow, phrase by 
phrase.] 

[See the Lord's Prayer, and all the other matter used in this Session in 
Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, which is the Scholar's Book, First 
Lesson, p.] 

Teacher. We will practise saying the words of that 
prayer together, till all these little ones know it, and till it 
Sounds as if one voice Was Speaking. [Practise but not to wea- 
riness.] 

Now let us sing the first hymn : " I have a Father." I 
suppose you have learned the words at home. Rise. 
[Sung standing, and more than once.] The Teacher next asks the 
questions in Catechism 1, first letting the scholars give 
their own answers to see what they remember of the First 
Session. If their replies are not good, she afterwards dic- 
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once. They will not be known verbally except by the 
Catechism Class ; and there is not time in School to commit 
so much to memory by repetition. The texts will suffice. 
They should have been learned at home ; but it will prob- 
ably be necessary to teach them in School also. They are 
Mark 12 : 32, and Gen. 1. 

[Hymn 2 is then sung, by lining, till known ; the one verse only.] 

[Dismissing.] 

[When all who can not read have left the room, the Catechism Class, sepa- 
rately or together, recite the whole of Lesson First, replies in Catechism in- 
cluded.] 

[It is impossible to form a definite plan for Sessions like the above, in which 
the main aim is, to fix texts and hymns in the memory and to practise 
tunes. Great pains should be taken to make them animated as well as or- 
derly. It may be necessary to throw in remarks and anecdotes, and to use 
pictures ; but this can be avoided by varying the mode of repetition — calling 
sometimes on the boys alone, then on the girls alone ; then on the top row, 
the second, and so forth ; and by timing with the watch, to see how quickly 
they can learn, etc. etc. etc.] 



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SUBJECT. 

"TOR JESUS' SAKE." WHO JESUS IS. FOB 
JESUS' SAKE GOD HEARS OUR PRAYERS 
AND HELPS US. OMNISCIENCE. 

[The Teacher repeats the Lord's Prayer, the children following aloud.] 

Teacher. You say that prayer every morning, because 

it asks God for bread for " this day." There is another 

little prayer which you can say every night. I suppose 

you do. This is it : 

EVENING PRAYER. 

And now I lay me down to sleep, 
I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; 
If I should die before I wake, 
I pray the Lord my soul to take : 
Father, do this for Jesus' sake. 

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down to sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my life to keep ; but if I 
die before I wake, me take to heaven, for Jesus' sake." I 
like the first way best ; but they both mean the same ; and 
they both end with the same words, u for Jesus' sake." 
Let us teach that little praj^er to those who do not know it 
already. Who knows it ? All you who know it hold up 

your hand. [The children raise the right hand, and the Teacher lets them 
see that she notices them. Raising the hand is always preferable to a " yes " 
or "no " answer, being quieter, and at the same time causing motion.] 

Teacher. Well, all you, help me to teach it to the 

others. All Speak. [The Evening Prayer is repeated till known.] 

Why do we say "for Jesus's sake" when we pray? 
Who is Jesus ? 

Jesus is God's Son ; he is God's only own Son ; (* See 
the first chapter of Hebrews, and John 1 : 14, 18 ; 3 : 16, 
18 ; 1 John 4 : 9 ;) and God loves Jesus very much. 

God sent him down here once, to be one of us. Jesus 
was made a little baby then like this ; [the Teacher shows a good 
picture of an infant ;] and he grew up and was made a man 

like this. [She shows a good picture of a man.] When Jesus was 

about thirty-three years old he died and was buried ; but 
God made him alive again, and he came out of his grave, 
and afterwards he went up above the clouds to his Father 
in heaven. He sat down there by his Father's side ; and 
he is there now. 

Jesus loves us, because he is one of us and used to live 
here. 

God the Father loves Jesus because he is his own Son 
and the very image of him. (See Heb. 1:3; 2 Cor. 4:4; 
Col. 1 : 13-17.) 

So God will do things for us, because he loves Jesus. 

God is kind and likes to do things for us ; but he does 
them all the more for Jesus' sake. (See John 16 : 23, 24 ; 

* The texts introduced by the word " see " are not to be used in teaching, 
but are pointed out for the benefit of the reader. 



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Acts 4:12.) So, whenever you pray, say at the end, " for 
Jesus' sake, Amen ;" or, " Do this for Jesus' sake." 

[Here the Evening Prayer is taught again ; then the School exercises in 
rising and sitting, and sings, standing, some familiar and favorite hymn.] 

Teacher. God can do every thing. He knows every 
thing. He knows just what we want. He knows just how 
to help us when we ask him. 

THE WOMAN IN THE WHIRLWIND. 

(A fact told in illustration.) 

One day the wind blew very hard. Did you ever wake 
up in the night and hear the wind blowing, and roaring, 
and slamming the shutters, and breaking the branches of 
the trees ? What a noise it makes ! 

But this wind I am telling you about was very much 
stronger. It came rushing along, tearing up the grass, and 
the earth, and the bushes, and the stones, and throwing 
them all up into the air ! You could see which way the 
wind was coming by the great dust-clouds that rolled up 
before it. It threw down thick trees, and tore up their 
great roots ! It carried off the roofs of the houses ; it beat 
down their strong walls ; they fell with a crash ! They 
fell and crushed people to death. Men, women and children 
ran, screaming, from their houses, to find some safer place ; 
but as they ran, the wind caught them, and lifted them up, 
and bore them along, and threw them again to the ground. 
It was a dreadful time ! 

It was not here. Oh ! no. The wind scarcely ever blows 
so hard here. It was in another country far away from us. 
There was a negro woman there ; a weak, lame woman. 
She could not run away. Her house was made of a few 
boards and a slanting roof, like a cattle-shed or a pig-sty. 
She was an old slave. No one cared for her. No one 
came to take her to a safer place. But the old woman 
knew who could help her. She knew about Our Father, 
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who cares for all his children. She knelt down in the 
corner and prayed to him. God heard her through all the 
noise of the wind, and of the screaming and of the crash- 
ing. Our Father in heaven heard her weak, trembling 
voice. 

But how could she he helped t That fearful wind was 
coming nearer and nearer every moment. If it did but 
touch her poor frail house, it would fall at once like a house 
built of cards ! God knew how to help her. He made the 
wind so strike her house that the parts fell leaning against 
each other, as your cards do sometimes. The roof slanted 
to the ground, leaning against two of the walls ; so. [The 
Teacher shows how.] Those two walls were the very ones near 
the old woman, who was kneeling in the corner. They did 
not touch her. They only made a nice covered place 
around her, and kept off all the flying sticks and stones. 
And next morning, when all was still again, and people 
came to look for their dead friends, they found the old lame 
negro slave sitting in her corner, alive and well, and thank- 
ing God for his goodness. Our heavenly Father always 
knows how. 

Say this after me : 

God is in heaven — can he hear 

A feeble prayer like mine ? 
Yes, little child, thou need'st not fear, 

He listeneth to thine. 

[They repeat, line by line.] 
Teacher, I will sing it to you. Listen, for it is a new 

tune. [She sings the verse through.] Now try to sing that With 
me. [They sing it by lining till known.] 



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See Second Lesson in the Scholar's Book, and remarks 
in the Second Session. 

[With Hymn 2, the Teacher pleases the children and keeps their attention 
while repeating and singing by showing appropriate large Pictures ; such as, 
" Christ Healing the Sick," " The Sermon on the Mount," " Christ Blessing 
Children," and a good picture of " The Crucifixion." Unlovely pictures of 
the Saviour, or of Patriarchs and Apostles, are worse than none.] 



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SUBJECT. 
OMNISCIENCE. THE BIBLE. 

[School opens with the singing of some well-known hymn.] } 

Teacher. Now, let us all speak together to our Heavenly- 
Father, and ask him to help us that we may have a good 
school to-day. Be careful when you speak to him ; he is 
so great. He sees and hears us. We must speak properly 
when we speak to the great God, or he will be displeased. 
But if we speak properly he loves to have us come and ask 
of him, for he is our Father. 

Look at this hand. When I lift it you are to rise quietly 

together, and stand (or kneel) while we pray. You are to 

shut your eyes that you may think of nothing but God ; 

and put your hands together, for people do so when they 

are begging earnestly for any thing. I will ask first. Then 

you say after me exactly what I said. Are you all looking 

at this hand ? 

[She gives the sign, and the children rise or kneel quietly and together. 
If not, the Teacher does not stop to drill them, but reserves that for a future 
exercise. She at once proceeds to offer a few simple petitions and thanks- 
givings, in short phrases, pausing after each phrase to let the children repeat 
it ; and finishes with the Lord's Prayer, adding, "for Jesus' sake, Amen." 



12 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

The Teacher does not watch the children during prayer, but really prays, 
and lets them see that she does. Example accomplishes more than pre- 
cept, for good or for evil. The Assistant watches the children, and does 
not pray or assume any devotional attitude for fear of teaching them 
formalism and hypocrisy. Children are quick to perceive and feel. If 
the prayer is clear, brief and sincere, disturbance soon ceases, and many of 
the scholars are learning to pray " in spirit and in truth."] 

First Part. Omniscience. The Bible. 

Teacher. God knows every thing. You may ask him 
questions. If he wants you to know, he can make you 
know. I do not think he will answer you by a voice ; for 
he has had written in a book what he wants to tell us. 
That book is the Bible. The Bible is " the book in which 
God speaks to us." This is a Bible. God's words are in 
this Bible, and in every Bible. 
[The Teacher holds open before them a pretty, attractive copy of the Bible. ] 

Kepeat after me, " When my teacher," etc. (See Hymn 
3, Scholar's Book.) 

" Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth." Do you know 
who said that? [Hands and replies.] Who was it? Tell me 
about him. [Replies.] I will tell you the whole story, for it 
is here in the Bible. [Turning to First Samuel.] It is a beauti- 
ful true story ; the Bible is full of beautiful true stories. 

But first Stand up and sing. [Hymn 1 or Hymn 2, sung standing.] 
[The Teacher next reads, or narrates, from First Samuel, thus :] 

" There was a certain man, . . and his name was Elka- 
nah, . . but (his wife) Hannah had no children, . . and 
she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, 
and wept sore, . . and the Lord remembered her. . . She 
bore a son, and called his name * Samuel,' (that means, 
asked of God,) saying, 4 Because I have asked him of the 
Lord.' . . . And when she had weaned him, she took 
him up with her, . . and brought him into the house of 
the Lord in Shiloh, . . to Eli ;" (Eli was the priest there. 
Hannah brought little Samuel to Eli, the priest, to live in 
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said : . . l For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath 
given me my petition which I asked of him ; therefore, 
also, I have lent him unto the Lord; as long as he liveth 
he shall be lent unto the Lord,' and he worshipped the 
Lord there. . . And Elkanah went to Ramah, to his 
house, and the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli, 
the priest. And it came to pass — "[The Teacher reads chap- 
ter 3 : 1-10 ; then, closing the Bible, with the finger in the place, adds :] 

Then God told Samuel how he was going to punish Eli and 
his sons, because his sons were wicked, and Eli did not 

punish them. [The Teacher opens the Bible and resumes the reading at 
verse 15th, continuing to the end of the first sentence in chapter 4 It is 
better to prepare for such readings by underlining the parts that are to be 
read.] 

Is there any one here who can sing, " When little Samuel 

Woke ?" [Hands.] [Sung or repeated, Hymn 9 in Scholar's Book 
Some other singing or exercises may be needed here.] 

God often spoke to Samuel after that, and gave him mes- 
sages to the people. Samuel told the people what God said. 
There were some things that God wanted all persons to 
know. So Samuel wrote them down in a book, that we 
might read them after he was dead. These books of Samuel 

are in the Bible. Here they are, [holding First and Second Sam- 
uel between the thumb and finger.] Other good men wrote God's 
words in books, that all might read them. Their books are 
in the Bible too. See : here is what God told Moses to 

Write, [holding together the first five books,] that Same MoseS that 

was laid among the bulrushes ; and here is what God told 
David to write, [holding the Psalms,] that same David who 
killed Goliath ; and here is what God told Daniel to write, 
that same Daniel who was cast into the den of lions. All 
these holy men lived in old times ; and all this part of the 
Bible [showing the Old Testament] was written in old times, be- 
fore our Lord Jesus came down to be a man. We call this 
part of the Bible the Old Testament. What do we call it ? 
[Replies.] This thinner part, at this end, has been written 



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since Jesus was here among men. It tells what Jesus did, 
and what he said. See : here is what Matthew wrote about 
the Lord Jesus ; and here is what Mark wrote about him ; 
and here is what Luke wrote ; and here is what John 
wrote ; and here is what Paul wrote ; and here is what 
Peter wrote. They all wrote about Jesus. God taught 
them what to say. The Bible is the word of God. This 
new part is called the New Testament. What is this part ? 

[Replies.] 

Now repeat after me. [Repeating.] 

Holy Bible ! book divine ! 
Precious treasure ! thou art mine. 
Mine to tell me whence I came, 
Mine to teach me what I am. 

Mine, to chide me when I rove ; 
Mine, to show a Saviour's love ; 
Mine, to comfort in distress, 
If the Holy Spirit bless. 

Mine to tell of joys to come, 
And the rebel sinner's doom. 
thou precious book divine ! 
Precious treasure ! thou art mine ! 

[The Teacher now lays aside the Bible, which she has been displaying 
hitherto.] 

Let us say over, " When my Teacher reads the Bible," 

and learn to sing it by lining. [Repeated and sung, Hymn 3.] 
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See Third Lesson in Scholar's Book. 

[" When little Samuel woke," or, " Holy Bible, Book divine," might be 
taught in School by lining. The story and picture of Timothy might be in- 
troduced in connection with the text. Short lessons, like this Third, give 
opportunity to practise what is known imperfectly, or to learn some of the 
miscellaneous hymns.] 



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SUBJECT. 
GOD IS THE SOUKCE OF LIFE. 

[School opens with singing and prayer.] 

Teacher. God knows every thing and can do every thing. 
Else how could he make all things ? He made your eyes 
so that they can see. He made your ears so that they can 
hear. He made your hands so that you can use them. 
He made your feet so that you can walk, and jump, and 
run ! Can your doll see, and hear, and handle, and walk ? 
No, no ; men can make a doll ; but only God can make a 
real living person, like you. 

FANNY AND HER DOLL. 

(A fact in illustration.) 

This reminds me of a little girl who had her doll in bed 
with her. Her aunt saw her turn over and lie awhile with 
her face hid in the pillow. Then she turned and looked at 
her doll. Then she turned on her face again. She did so 
many times. At last the aunt said : " What are you doing, 
Fanny ? " " Why, aunt," said Fanny, " I wish my dolly 
was a real meat baby. So I asked God to change it into a 
meat baby, and I was looking to see whether he had done 
it yet." 

It was funny to call a real living baby a meat baby ; but 
Fanny was quite right in every thing else. A real baby is 
better than a doll. God can make alive. We should go 
and ask him for what we want. 

But do you think that such a very little girl could take 
care of a live baby ? [Replies.] God knew she could not, so 
he did not make her doll alive. God knows best. If we 
ask him for what would not be good, he does not do it. 
But he likes us to ask him, and if it is best, he does it for 
us, for Jesus' sake. 



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Repeat : 

God made the pretty bird to fly, 

How sweetly has she sung ! 
And though she goes so very high, 

She won't forget her young. 

God made me, too, and all I love ; 

He made my parents dear ; 
He made the glorious ones above, 

And all who love me here. 

[Singing or Exercise.] 

Here in the Bible God tells us how he made the first man 

alive. [The Teacher reads from Genesis 2 : 7. ] "The Lord God 
formed man of the dust of the ground ; and breathed into 
his nostrils the breath of life : and man became a living 
soul." That man was Adam, the first man. Ever since, 
all the children have become living souls, too; and God 
gives the breath of life to the babies as soon as they are 
born. And God keeps this breath coming and going, and 
never stopping till it is their time to die. 

You have the breath of life. Put your fingers before 
your mouth, so. Blow upon them. Don't you feel your 
breath ? [Replies.] As soon as you stop blowing it out, you 
draw breath in again, don't you ? Try. [Replies.] Then 
you breathe it out. Then you draw it in. If you did not 

breathe, what Would become of you ? [Their own replies first.] 

Yes, we should die. Try how long you can do without 
breathing. Put your hands closely over mouth and nose, 
so, and stop your breath. You could not bear that long. 
If you should stop breathing five minutes it would kill you. 

THE CHILD IN THE WELL. 

(A fact in illustration.) 

A lady sent her children with the nurse to play in a large 
garden. The nurse went into the gardener's house to speak 
to his wife. While she was away the older children went 
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too, came back without that youngest boy. Where was he ? 
They went out to look for him, but they could not see him. 
At last they saw his hat close to a well. The well was full 
of water — full to the very top. Down at the bottom lay the 
little boy. They pulled him out, but he was dead. Why ? 
Because he had been lying with his head under the water 
so long. The water kept away his breath. He could not 
breathe — so he died. 

Draw in your breath now. There. You were thinking 
about it and trying then. Bat when you are busy playing, 
are you thinking about your breath ? What makes the 
breath come when you forget all about it ? When you are 
fast asleep, who keeps you breathing? [Replies first.] God 
keeps us breathing. God takes care of us. God is keeping 
us alive all the while. Say this after me : 

Little gentle breath, 

Coining and going away, 
Who keeps you coming, coming, 

By night as well as by day ? 

God moves each beating heart, 
God sends each gentle breath, 

God watches us all night, all day, 
And keeps us safe from death. 

They sing the first four lines by lining, and speak the last four. 

This evening, before we lie down to sleep, let us every 
one thank God for having kept us alive to-day ; and to- 
morrow morning let us thank him for having kept us 
alive all night. Will you ? If you will, raise your hand. 

[The hands raised are noticed.] 

Let us ask him to keep us alive all night, and to-morrow 
morning let us ask him to take care of us all day. Here is 
a good little prayer : 

PRAYER FOR THE BODY. 

God ! my little body keep, 
Both when I wake and when I sleep. 
For Jesus' sake, Amen. 



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You know another prayer, about " I pray the Lord my 
SOul to keep." Say it Over to me. [They recite "And now I lay 
me down to sleep."] 

Well, you can "ask" God in the words of these two 
prayers ; or else ask him in your own words, whichever 
you choose. But be sure and remember to ash him. Ask 
every night and every morning. 

[Singing or Exercise.] 

Say this text after me. John 5 : 26. As the Father 
hath life in himself, [repeated,] so hath he given to the Son to 
have life in himself. [Repeated.] Who is the Father ? [Replies.] 
God, our Father who is in Heaven. Who is the Son ? 
[Replies.] The Lord Jesus is the Son of God. Our Heaven- 
ly Father has life in himself, and makes people alive. His 
Son Jesus has life in himself, and makes people alive. 

When JeSUS was here among men — [the Teacher proceeds to read 
or narrate the Raising of Jairus' Daughter, from Luke 8 : 41, 42, 49-56.] 

When Jesus comes again, he will call to all the people 
in the graves ! and all that are in the graves shall hear 
Ms voice and shall come forth ! The Lord Jesus gives 
us life here ; and only Jesus can give us lasting, happy life 
after we have died. Let us ask the Lord Jesus to give us 
everlasting life. 

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SUBJECT. 
OMNIPOTENCE. GOD'S POSTER IN" NATURE. 

[School opens with singing and prayer.] 

First Part. Winds and Waves. 

[If there has been, within a short time previous, a thunder-storm or a 
strong wind, the Teacher can at once engage the attention of the children by- 
talking about that. Passing events, the employments and pleasures of the 
season, whatever, in short, is much in their thoughts at the time, will 
always be seized upon and used in some way by an apt teacher. This 
practice also tends to make the children feel that in her other teaching, too, 
she is talking about realities which concern them.] 

Teacher. The Lord our God is almighty. Nothing is too 
hard for him. The bright, flashing lightnings, the loud, 
rumbling thunder — God makes them, God sends them. 
They do what he chooses. Then he takes them away. The 
loud, roaring winds, God makes them blow. The waters 
that roll and foam, and dash the ships to pieces, God sends 
them, and God stays them. 

THE CAPTAIN'S LITTLE DAUGHTER. 

Once a ship was on the waters, where they were dashing 
and foaming. The people in it thought they would all be 
drowned. Even the captain was afraid. His tears began 
to drop down. 

Then the captain's little daughter 

Took her father by the hand, 
And said: " Is not God upon the sea, 

As well as on the land ? " 

She knew that God could still the winds and waters, and 
keep them safe. 
Say this after me : 

God rides the roaring winds, 



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[They repeat.] 



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JESUS ON" THE LAKE. 
(Matthew 8 : 23-27.) 

Who is the Lord Jesus ? [Their own replies first.] The Lord 
Jesus is the Son of God. The Lord Jesus can do all that 
his Father does. (See John 5 : 19-23.) 

" When Jesus was here among men," he was sailing one 
evening in a boat, with his friends, over a wide lake of 
water. When the boat had gone about half-way across, 
the wind began to blow hard ; the sky grew dark ; the rain 
fell ; the lightning flashed ; the thunder roared ; the waters 
raged, and tossed the boat about. The people in it tried to 
bring it near the land, but they could not manage it at all. 
They thought it would break to pieces, and let them fall 
and sink in the waters. They were dreadfully frightened. 
Jesus, all this time, lay sleeping on a pillow. 

[The teacher sings to them, or else lets them repeat.] 

Jesus, sleeping on a pillow, 
Heeded not the raging billow, 
Though the winds were all abroad, 
Calmly slept the Son of God. 

They waked him up, crying to him, "Lord, save us, we 
perish !" — help us, we shall all be drowned ! Jesus 
awaked. But he was not afraid. He calmly stood up 
and spoke to the wild wind and dashing waters. He said 
to them: "Peace, be still." And the wind stopped blow- 
ing ; the water became smooth and quiet as the clear blue 
sky ; the boat was tossed no more. The men easily rowed 
it to the land, and all stepped safely out upon the firm dry 
ground. 

Who was this that commanded the winds and waters 
and they obeyed him? [Replies.] It was Jesus. Jesus 
can do all that God can do, and God can do every thing. 

Now say this after me again : 

" God rides the roaring winds," etc. 



A YEAH IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 21 

[The Teacher sings this one verse to them, and they sing it by lining till 
they know both words and tune. Then all rise and sing some favorite 
hymn.] 

Second Part. Lightning and thunder. 
Say this after me : 

God darts the fiery flames, 

Across the darkened sky. [Repeating.] 

Did you ever see fiery flames flashing across dark clouds 

in the sky ? [Hands.] When ? Tell me about it. [Free con- 
versation.] What is it that flashes ? [Replies.] It is light- 
ning. And what did you hear after it? [Replies.] Thunder. 
Was any harm done ? [Free replies.] Sometimes lightning 
splits walls and trees, and burns barns, and knocks down 
beasts and men. Sometimes it kills them in an instant. 
It does whatever God sends it to do. 

But he does not often send it to hurt and kill. He sends 
it with the rain to clean the air, to make it cool and pleas- 
ant, to keep us from getting sick. Don't you remember 
how fresh and sweet every thing was after the thunder- 
storm ? This is what God sent it for. 

The lightning can not hurt us if God takes care of us ; 
but he can strike us with it if he chooses. 

Say after me : 

God darts the fiery flames 

Across the darkened sky ; 
He bids them pass — they flash and fade ; 

He bids them strike — we die. 

God thunders with his voice ! 

God thunders gloriously ! 
ye who love the Lord! rejoice! 

sinners ! fear and flee ! [Singing.] 

Third Part. Volcanoes and earthquakes. 

You know that God can dart fire down from the clouds ; 
but did you know that he can bring fire out of the ground ? 
God can do that ; he does it in many places. 



22 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

When you put your hand on the ground, does it feci 
warm ? [Replies.] No ; it feels cool in the shade ; and in 
the cellar it is cooler still ; and it is colder yet at the bot- 
tom of the well. But deep down, far deeper than the 
wells, God has great raging fires in the earth. There, lead 
and iron turn red hot and melt. There, the very stones 
are melted, and the clay, and sand, and all. There, the 
gases go off like gunpowder in the fierce heat, and the 
strong steam presses up. They lift whole mountains and 
split them ; and tear the rocks ; and force a way out 
through the tops of the highest cliffs. Then the smoke 
and flame pour out of the opening, as if from some great 
chimney. What is the right name for such burning moun- 
tains ? [Tlieir own answers first.] Volcanoes. 

Why do we make chimneys in our houses ? [Replies and 
conversation.] So that the flame and smoke may pass up and 
do no harm. Yes, and that is the use of the volcanoes. 
They let off the smoke, and steam, and flame, from the 
great fires under ground. 

But sometimes those deep fires, down below, suddenly 
blaze up furiously, and the melted matter boils over the 
mountain top and runs down in streams upon the country 
round. Then they are terrible. 

ETNA AND THE WALL OF CATANIA. 

There is a volcano in Sicily named Etna. It had smoked 
so long without doing any harm that the people near it 
were not afraid. They planted their grape-vines and their 
olive-groves upon its sloping sides ; and they built their 
houses in the shade of the orange and mulberry trees, 
among the green fields below. The country round was 
filled with busy towns and pretty villages. 

But, one year, they were startled by strange sounds 
under the ground ; noises below their feet, like long rum- 



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bling peals of thunder or like thousands of cannon. Then, 
with a tremendous crash, the ground split open, and the 
split spread along for twelve miles, and tore the side of 
Mount Etna nearly to the top ; and out of the deep, dark 
opening came vivid flashes of light and horrid bellowings, 
which were heard forty miles off ! 

At last, the melted matter from below boiled up, and ran 
over from the top of Etna in scorching streams of lava. 
The fiery rivers rolled down and flowed along for fifteen 
miles, burning and burying every thing in their way. They 
passed over vineyards, and orchards, and harvest fields ; 
they passed over fourteen villages ; they reached the high 
wall of a city called Catania. The wall was sixty feet high, 
higher than your house is. The red-hot lava river piled 
itself up against it, till it was even with the top ; then it 
passed over the top, and poured down into the town as a 
great fire-fall. On it rolled through the streets and out at 
the other end, and never stopped till it ran into the sea, 
fifteen miles from the mountain. This stream of melted 
lava was forty feet deep ; four or five times as deep as from 
this ceiling to the floor ! No wonder it covered every thing 
in its way ; and then it cooled and hardened into stone. 
The people ran from it to save their lives. No one but God 
himself could stop or turn it. 

" God rides the roaring winds." Say it after me. [They 

repeat the two verses, and rise to sing them.] 

LISBON IN 1755. 

Sometimes the fires under the ground can not get out by 
a volcano. Then, when the gases go off like gunpowder, 
and the melted matter boils, and the steam presses, they 
shake the solid ground above them, and make it rock and 
roll like the waves of the sea. That is what we call an 
earthquake. God can make the earth tremble and roll 
whenever he pleases. 



2-1 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

Lisbon is a fine city in Portugal. It was fall of hand- 
some stone churches. They had just built out from the 
edge of the land, over deep water, a wide walk or pier, all 
made of solid marble. 

One holiday morning, the churches were bright with 
flowers, which had been placed in them before the images ; 
and almost all the people, gayly dressed, were in the 
churches, bowing down before the images, and prajang to 
the saints, for it was All Saints' Day. Suddenly a noise 
was heard, like distant thunder, down beneath their feet ; 
and, in an instant, the earth was shaken so violently that 
nearly every house fell down in ruins. The churches fell 
down, too, upon the people. They had no time to flee ; in 
about six minutes sixty thousand persons were killed. 

Many had run, at the first trembling of the earth, to the 
marble walk or pier above the water. There they were 
crowded together. There, at least, they were safe from 
the falling walls. But, the next moment, the earth opened 
beneath the water, near the pier, and all that marble pave- 
ment, and all the thousands there, and the water, and the 
boats and vessels, crowded with people, too, went down 
together into the dark yawning pit. It closed up again ? 
and they were gone forever ; not one of them was ever seen 
again ! 

God touches the hills, and they smoke ! 
God looks upon the earth, and it trembles ! 
Who is a strong Lord like our God ? 

TERRA FIRMA. 

Did you ever feel the ground shake under your feet? 
and rock and roll? No. God does not often shake it. 
He uses Ms great strength to hold it still. He Tceeps it 
firm and steady under our feet. We are safe in his care. 
Nothing can happen to us unless he chooses. Pray to 
him. Do right and please him. Love him, and he will 



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watch over you for good. But do not make him angry. 
Do not do wrong. God is terrible when once he is angry ; 
for he is very strong. 



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See Fifth Lesson in the Scholar's Book, " Texts and 
Hymns," etc. 

[The tediousness of repetition may be averted by telling other facts on the 
general topic, such as an accurate account of the loss of Herculaneum and 
Pompeii, which were, according to Lyell, overwhelmed, not by lava, but by 
volcanic showers.] 

HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII. 

You have heard of the burning mountain, Etna. Vesu- 
vius is the name of another volcano. Once, nearly one 
thousand eight hundred years ago, strange sounds were 
heard below; and from the hollow mountain great clouds 
of black smoke arose, rushing up, and whirling round, and 
spreading out, till it looked like a huge pine tree, whose 
top was in the sky. Then, dust and ashes showered down 
like snow, filling and darkening the air. Forked lightnings 
flashed from the cloud of smoke and steam. Rain fell in 
torrents. The water swept the volcanic dust along in a 
deluge of mud. Down it rolled, soft mud, wave upon 
wave, covering trees and houses ! It came so quickly, 
there was hardly time to run from it. 

Two splendid cities were standing between Mount Vesu- 
vius and the sea ; their names were Herculaneum and 
Pompeii. The muddy flood came pouring through their 
streets. It filled the shops. It filled the houses. It filled 
the theatres and the temples. The baker left his bread 
upon the counter. The apothecary left his pills half made. 
Hundreds of years after, these things were found where 
the people had left them, by those who dug down through 



26 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

the hardened mud. Persons running from the town saw 
the mud torrents sweeping along their road, and ran for 
safety into the cellar of a country house. They were found 
there long after, buried in the mud, which had poured in 
after them and filled the place; seventeen skeletons were 
found together in one cellar. 

And still it came, that suffocating mud. It filled the 
streets up to the tops of the house walls. It covered over 
the roofs. House after house was hidden under it, till not 
one building could be seen above it. And still it came 
from the smoking, steaming mountain, and piled up and 
spread out above the buried cities. At last it cooled and 
hardened; and, in after-years, men ploughed the earth 
there, and built homes for themselves, and knew not that 
deep beneath them lay the two lost cities, Herculaneum 
and Pompeii. 



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SUBJECT. 

OMNIPOTENCE. GOD EXALTS AND ABASES. HE 
IS THE MOST HIQH. 

[School opens with singing and prayer.] 

Teacher. We will begin to-day by learning a text about 
our Almighty God. When you know the text I will tell 
you two interesting histories which I have read in the 
Bible. The text is here, in the 75th Psalm, 7th verse. 
Repeat after me. 

Psalm 75 : 7. " God is the Judge. He putteth down 
one, and setteth up another." 

[Repeated till known.] 

NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 

The first history is about King Nebuchadnezzar. We 
find it here, in the fourth chapter of Daniel. Nebuchad- 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 27 

nezzar was a powerful king. He had thousands of soldiers. 
They went out with horses and chariots, and sharp swords 
and swift arrows. They forced every one to obey King 
Nebuchadnezzar, and to give him whatever he wanted from 
them. So he was very rich. He built himself a grand 
palace to live in. He had the walls of the rooms covered 
with carvings, and paintings, and writings, all telling about 
his greatness and the deeds that he had done.* All around 
it he had fine houses built for his friends and for his cap- 
tains. He made a handsome city there, named Babylon. 
He put a high wall, with towers and gates, all around the 
city, that no one might break through. And he said to 
himself: " Who is as safe and as strong as I ? Who dare 
do any thing to me F ' 

One evening, King Nebuchadnezzar was walking on the 
flat roof of his high and beautiful palace. The great city 
lay spread out on every side. He looked around upon it, 
and he spoke and said : " Is not this great Babylon that I 
have built by the might of my power and for the honor of 
my majesty ?" While the word was yet in the king's 
mouth, there fell a voice from heaven saying words like 
these : " King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken. 
The kingdom is gone from you. They shall drive you 
from men, and you shall live with the beasts of the field. 
They shall make you eat grass as oxen do. And seven 
times shall pass over you, until you know that God, the 
Most High, rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to 
whoever he will." 

That same hour this thing was done. Nebuchadnezzar 
was driven from among men, and did eat grass as oxen do. 
His royal robes were all thrown off. He stripped himself 
of his fine clothes and lay and slept among the beasts ; 
and his body was wet with the dew. His hair and beard 

* See Layard's Researches. 



28 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

grew rough and long. His nails grew like claws. For 
God had taken the great king in his pride, and put him 
down below the poorest of men, as low as the beasts of the 
field. 

But the seven times passed away, and then, one day, 
Nebuchadnezzar stood up upon his feet and looked to 
heaven, and knew that he was a man and not a beast. 
His understanding came back to him. They took him 
into his palace, and he was king again. 

Then he blessed God and called him THE MOST HIGH, 
and he praised and honored him that lives forever and ever 
And he said, (though not in just these words,) "God's 
kingdom is everlasting. All people on earth are nothing to 
him. He does as he chooses in the army of heaven and 
among the inhabitants of the earth ; and none can stay his 
hand, or say to him, • What are you doing ? And those 
who walk in pride he is able to put down." Let us learn 
part of what the king said, it is so very true. 

(They learn, by repetition, part of Daniel 4 : 35-37.) 
" He doeth according to his will ... in heaven and . . 
earth; and none can stay his hand — or say unto him — 
4 What doest thou ?' — and those that walk in pride — he is 
able to abase." Abase means put down. 

Teacher. Repeat the first text again. Psalm 75 : 7. 
God is the judge. He putteth down one and setteth up 

another. [They repeat.] [Singing.] 

SAUL. 

A young man named Saul was looking for some donkeys 
which had strayed away. He went to Samuel to ask where 
they were. Samuel was old then, but God often spoke to 
him, as he did when he was a child. You remember, [the 

Teacher sings.] 

When little Samuel woke 
And heard his Maker's voice, 



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At every word he spoke 
How much did he rejoice ! 
blessed, happy child ! to find 
The God of heaven so near and kind. 

Samuel had grown to be an aged man and a holy prophet 
of God when Saul went to him to ask about the donkeys. 
As Saul came in sight, God whispered to Samuel : " This is 
the man whom I will make king over my people. " Then 
Samuel said to Saul: "Your father's donkeys are found. 
Think no more about them. God has chosen you to be the 
captain of all the Israelites." But Saul said: " Why do 
you speak so to me t My people and my father's family 
are the least and the lowest in Israel. I have no friends 
who are able to make me king." Samuel said: "Come 
with me." 

Samuel took Saul to a feast that day, and gave him the 
best place and the best pieces, in the sight of all the peo- 
ple. Next morning he poured the sacred oil upon his head 
and said again : "The Lord has anointed you captain over 
his people." Then Saul went away, for he was not king 
yet. 

The prophet Samuel went and called all the men together 
and said: "You want to have a king over you. Cast lots 
and see who is to be your king." They cast lots, and God 
made the lots fall so that Saul was the man chosen to be 
king. Now, Saul was so afraid that they would not like 
him, that he had hidden himself among the baggage. They 
found him there, and brought him out and set him in the 
midst, that all might look at him. And when they saw him 
so handsome, and so strong, and taller from the shoulders 
up than any of the rest, they shouted with a loud voice : 
"Long live the king!" But some said: "What can this 
man do for us ?" And they would not obey him. So Saul 
went home with a band of men, whose hearts God had 
touched, and was king over part of Israel. 



SO HOUKS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

God had promised more than that. He had said that 
Saul should be king over all his people ; and God knew 
how to make them willing to obey him. He sent fierce 
foreign soldiers there to carry off their grain and fruit, and 
burn their houses. Saul went out with his men, and drove 
the fierce soldiers away. Then all the people cried out : 
" Who would not obey Saul ? He is our king !" So, Saul 
was Captain over all Israel ; for God had raised him up. 

[Singing or exercise.] 

Teacher. The Israelites obeyed King Saul, but Saul dis- 
obeyed God. God was displeased. He sent Samuel to tell 
him so. Samuel said : " When you were little in your own 
eyes God made you captain over all his people. But now, 
he will take the kingdom from you, and give it to a neigh- 
bor of yours, who is better than you." And who do you 
think that was ? It was a poor young shepherd-boy, who 
was sitting then far off among the grassy hills, and watch- 
ing over a few sheep. His name was David. Shall I tell 
you how God put down King Saul and raised up the little 
shepherd-boy and made him king ? [Hands.] First, let us 

Sing. [Singing.] 

DAVID. 

David was the son of Jesse. Samuel went to Jesse's 
town, saying : " I have come to sacrifice to the Lord." He 
invited Jesse and all his sons to the feast. Now, Jesse had 
eight sons, but he brought only seven with him to the feast. 
He left little David behind with the sheep, for he was only 
a boy. But the Lord said to Samuel : "I have not chosen 
any of these seven." And Samuel said to Jesse : " Send 
and fetch David, for we will not sit down till he comes 
here." David came in. He was a fine rosy boy, about 
seventeen years old. Samuel poured the sweet-smelling 
holy oil upon his head. Then all present knew that God 
had chosen him to be king ; and the Spirit of the Lord 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 31 

came upon him. But he was not king yet ; for Saul was 
still alive; and David staid with Jesse, and minded the 
sheep among the grassy hills. 

At last, there was a war. A great giant, named Goliath, 
came, with thousands of soldiers, to fight the Israelites. 
King Saul, and David's tall brothers, and all the strong 
men, went out against them. One day, Jesse sent David 
to the army to carry bread, and cheese, and fruit, to his 
brothers. There David saw the soldiers and King Saul in 
his shining armor ; there, too, he saw the enemies, and the 
great giant Goliath. Goliath was walking about and boast- 
ing aloud. He was covered all over with bright brass. By 
his side was a great sword. In his hand was a long spear, 
with a heavy iron point. Not one of the Israelites dared 
to go forward and fight him. Then David said to King 
Saul : " Let me fight Goliath. I have killed a bear and a 
lion ; and God, who made me able to do that, will make me 
able to kill this wicked Goliath." So the shepherd-boy 
went forward to fight the giant. 

David took nothing with him but his stick and five smooth 
stones in a sling. When Goliath saw him he laughed aloud 
and said: "Am I a dog that you come against me with a 
stick ?" Then said David : " You come to me with a sword, 
and a spear, and a shield ; but I come to you in the name 
of the Lord of Hosts. This day . . I will take your head 
from you ; . . . the battle is the Lord's, and he will give 
you into our hand." Goliath ran forward to crush David 
to the earth. David ran forward, too, to meet Goliath ; 
and, as he ran, he threw a stone from his sling at the great 
giant's head. It hit him in the forehead and sank in, and 
Goliath fell down dead with his face to the ground. Then 
David came and stood upon his body, and cut his head off 
with his own great sword. King Saul was so much pleased 
with David that he made him a general, and afterwards he 



32 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

married him to his daughter. David was not king yet, but 
he was the king's son-in-law, and ate at his table. 

Saul soon grew jealous of -David. He said : " David 
shall never be king ! I will kill him." One day he threw 
an iron arrow at him, but it passed him and stuck in the 
wall. Another time, he sent soldiers to take David out of 
his bed and bring him to him, but his wife got him away 
before they came in. Poor David had to hide in woods and 
caves. He had to live among strangers many years for fear 
of King Saul ; but yet he knew that God would keep his 
word and make him king. 

At last the time came. There was a dreadful battle upon 
Mount Giiboa ; King Saul was killed, and his sons died 
there with him. The Israelites had no king to lead them 
on. Then they remembered David who killed Goliath. 
They sent and brought him home and made him king. 

He commanded the soldiers, and lived in the palace, and 
wore the crown, and had all the power and grandeur ; for 
God had put down Saul and raised up David. 

Now, let us repeat our texts. Speak all together. 
Psalm 75 : 7. " God is the judge. — He putteth down one, 
— and setteth up another." Daniel 4 : 35. " God does as 
he will . . in heaven and . . on earth ; — and none can 
stay his hand, — or say to him, ' What doest thou ? ' " [They 
repeat several times.] 

Dismission. 



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See Sixth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for tee 
Youngest. 



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SUBJECT. 

OMNIPOTENCE. GOD'S POWER TO KILL AND 
TO SAVE ALIVE. 

(See Deut. 32 : 39 ; 2 Kings 5 : 7.) Hymn before wor- 
ship. The Apostles. 
Teacher. Say this after me : 

Oh ! we love to come 
To our Sabbath home, 

When the six days' work is o'er, 
To hear and sing 
Of our heavenly King, 

And learn to love him more. 

[They sing it by lining till they know it well enough to use before worship 
in future. The School unites in prayer.] 

Teacher. Did you ever hear of the twelve Apostles ? 
[Hands.] These were their names. Say them after me, 
counting on your fingers, so. Peter and Andrew, his 
brother, one, two ; — James and John, the sons Of Zebedee, 
three, four ; — Philip and Bartholomew, five, six ; — Thomas 
and Matthew, seven, eight ; — James, the son of Alpheus, 
and Jude, his brother, nine, ten ; — Simon, the Canaanite, 
and Judas Iscariot, eleven, twelve. [The Teacher goes on.] 
But Judas Iscariot was wicked, and he killed himself ; then 
the apostles and Christians chose another in his place — that 
was Matthias ; and the Lord Jesus came shining out from 
heaven and chose another Apostle — that was Paul. The 
Apostles were good, holy men, whom God sent with a joy- 
ful message to all people. (See 2 Cor. 5 : 20, 21. 6.) 

Do you know any histories about these apostles ? Tell 
me any thing you ever heard about any of them. [Replies.] 
Now I will tell you something about two of the Apostles. 
It is about James and Peter. 



34 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

PETER AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORJ). 
(See Acts 12.) 

Peter and James were living in Jerusalem, Herod was 
king there. The men of that city hated the Apostles, and 
wished they were all dead. 

So King Herod sent his soldiers and cut James's head off; 
and the people were glad. When Herod saw that it pleased 
them, he sent for Peter too, and shut him up in prison, and 
said that, on a holiday, when the streets were crowded, he 
would bring Peter out, and kill him before them all. 

Peter was in the innermost room of the prison, lying be- 
tween two soldiers. He was chained to their wrists, so 
that he could not stir without their knowing it. Outside 
there were other soldiers watching. There were twelve or 
fourteen of them, set there to keep Peter from getting out, 
and to keep his friends from coming to take him away. 
Next day he was to die. Yet he was sleeping. He was 
not afraid. But Peter's friends, who loved him, were not 
sleeping. They were together in another house, praying 
the Lord not to let Herod kill him. 

Peter lay sleeping ; but lo ! the angel of the Lord came, 
and a light shone in the prison. The angel struck Peter on 
the side and raised him up, saying, u Arise up quickly," 
and the chains fell from his hands. The angel said to him, 
" Gird thyself and bind on thy sandals," and he did so. 
And he said, " Cast thy garment about thee, and follow 
me ; " and Peter went out, following the angel. But he did 
not know that he was really being led out of prison ; it 
seemed to him like dreaming. 

They passed the first guard of soldiers. They passed the 
second guard. They came to the great iron gate ; it opened 
of itself. They went out and passed through one street, 
and suddenly the angel was gone. 

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A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 35 

really free. " Now I know surely," said he, " that the 
Lord has sent his angel and has delivered me out of Herod's 
hands, and from all the people who are expecting to see me 
killed." He went on and came to the house where the 
Christians were together, praying. He knocked at the door. 
A girl named Rhoda came and asked : " Who is there ? " 
When she heard Peter's voice, she opened not the door for 
gladness, but ran in and told them that Peter was standing 
there; and they said: "You are crazy." But she said : 
" He is there ! It is Peter himself! indeed it is ! Peter is 
there, standing before the door ! " Then said they : " It is 
his angel." But Peter continued knocking. And when 
they had opened the door, and saw him, they were aston- 
ished. But he, beckoning to them with the hand to keep 
quiet, told them how the Lord had brought him out of the 
prison. 

How did the Lord bring him out ? [Replies.] 
This history is printed here in the twelfth chapter of 
Acts, in the Bible. [The Teacher always holds up the Bible and points 
out the place.] 

Let us sing, " Little gentle breath." [They sing and speak 

Hymn 4.] 

Say this after me : 

Oh ! do not be discouraged, 

For Jesus is your Friend ; 
He will give you grace to conquer 

And keep you to the end. 
I'm glad I'm in his army, 
And I'll battle for the right. 

[They sing this by lining ; or else sing something more familiar to them.] 

Teacher. Shall I tell you what became of King Herod ? 

[Hands.! 



36 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

HEROD AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD. 

(See Josephus.) 

In the morning Herod sent for Peter. He was not in the 
prison. The soldiers had missed him as soon as it was 
day ; and they were in great trouble. Herod could not find 
him. He questioned the keepers, and commanded that 
they should be put to death. 

Soon after, Herod went to live in another city, called 
Caesarea. A company of foreigners came there to beg a 
favor from the great King Herod. Herod told them he 
would come out on a certain day and talk with them in the 
presence of all the people. 

On the set day Herod came forth, dressed in a robe all 
woven of silver threads. He stood on a lofty platform and 
looked down on all the people, and spoke to them grandly 
and proudly; and while he was speaking, the sunshine 
lighted up his silver robe till it shone like the sun, and 
dazzled their eyes. Then they gave a shout and said : 
" This is not a man who is speaking ! He is a god ! " And 
Herod let them call him a god. There is no god but the 
ONE, and Herod knew it ; but he did not say so ; there- 
fore the angel of the Lord, unseen, struck down the king. 
Herod fell on the platform and groaned and rolled in agony. 
A dreadful illness had seized him. They carried him to his 
splendid bed. They took off his silver robe, and oh ! what 
a sight ! Great sores, and crawling worms ! The worms 
were feeding on him ! So Herod was eaten by worms and 
died. 

Hear what God says of himself here in the Bible : " See 
now that I am, and there is no god with me. I kill and I 
make alive ; I wound and I heal. Neither is there any that 
can deliver out of my hand." 

We will learn part of that verse. Say after me — Deut. 



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32 : 39 : "I kill and I make alive ; — I wound and I heal ; 
— neither is there any that can deliver — out of my hand." 

[Repeat several times.] 

Sing " Little gentle breath." [Hymn 4.] 
Repeat to me the prayer for your body. [See Fourth Lesson.] 
And now the prayer for your soul. [See Second Lesson.] 



J^urtemtlj Session* 



See Seventh Lesson in Texts and Hymns. 

[nymn 7 and the prayers for the body and for the soul are repeated till 
perfectly known.] 

The Apostles. 

[Count on the fingers by twos in repeating this — thus : " Peter and An- 
drew, etc., one, two" — touching the left-hand thumb; "James and John, 
etc., three, four " — touching the first finger, and so forth. This is a mnemo- 
nic. Soon the fingers recall the names associated with them, and reaching 
the thumb again shows that the list is ended.] 

When Jesus was here among men, he chose twelve apostles 
to carry his joyful message to all people. Tell me their 
names. 

Peter and Andrew, his brother ; 

James and John, the sons of Zebedee ; 

Philip and Bartholomew ; 

Thomas and Matthew ; 

James, the son of Alpheus, and Jude, his brother ; 

Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot. 

[Lists like this, in learning, might be sung or chanted.] 

Two others were chosen afterwards. Tell me their 
names. 

Matthias and Paul. 

The Lord Jesus came shining out of heaven to send one 
of those two. Which one ? 

The Apostle Paul. 



38 HOUES WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

Who sent the Apostles ? 
God sent them. 
What had the apostles to do f 
To carry Christ's joyful message to all people. 
(" Oh ! we love to come," is Hymn 68, p. — , in Scholar's 
Book.) 



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SUBJECT. 

OMNIPRESENCE. "OUR FATHER" IS "IN 

HEAVEN." 

The Hymn before Worship, No. 68, is sung so far as 
known. 

[School opens with worship.] 

Teacher. Where is Our Father? [Free replies.] Your 
prayer tells us : " Our Father who art in heaven." Sing, 

" When I look up to yonder sky." [They sing the verse in First 

Lesson.] When you look up to yonder sky, what do you 
see ? [Replies.] Blue, blue, blue spread out. Can you see 
through the blue and beyond it ? [Replies.] There was a 
man named John, who saw the blue sky open, as if a door 
was opened in the sky, and he saw what is beyond ! He 
wrote down what he saw. Shall I tell you about it? 
[Hands.] It is printed here in the Bible. [Showing Rev. 4.] 

WHIT JOHN SAW BEYOND THE SKY. 

The Apostle John was sitting alone one Sunday among 
the rocks. He looked up to the blue sky. He saw a door 
opened in heaven ; and a voice like a trumpet talked 
with him. It said : " Come up here, and I will show you 
things. . . ." Then it seemed to John that he was there. He 
looked. A throne was set in heaven, a high and splendid 
seat ; and One sat upon the throne. He who sat there — to 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 39 

look at him was like looking into polished precious stones, 
all shining red and purple — he was so glorious ! so beau- 
tiful ! x 

Who was it on the throne in heaven, so glorious ? It was 
Our Father who is in heaven. There was a rainbow round 
about the throne, green and clear, like an emerald. And 
round about the throne were four and twenty seats ; and 
upon the seats four and twenty wise and noble men, all 
dressed in white, with crowns of gold upon their heads. 
Out of the throne came lightnings and thunders and voices. 
Before it were seven burning lights. The very pavement 
in front of it was so polished that it looked like clear 
glass. 

Close to the throne were four strong living ones, full of 
eyes, and having each six wings. And, day and night, 
these four were always saying : " Holy, holy, holy, Lord 
God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." And 
when those living ones give glory and honor and thanks to 
him that sat upon the throne, who lives forever and ever, 
the four and twenty wise and noble men rise from their 
seats, and fall down before him, and worship him who lives 
forever and ever. And they lay their crowns down before 
the throne, saying : " Thou art worthy, Lord, to receive 
glory and honor and power : for thou hast made all things ; 
and for thy pleasure they are and were created." 

See how the good and glorious ones above bow down be- 
fore Our Father. They are near. They look at him. It 
fills them with love and joy. They speak out and praise 
him. But they bow down when they do it ; he is so great 
and high ! so much better than even they are ! Then oh ! 
how much he is above us ! how much more splendid ! how 
much stronger ! how much better ! Let us bow down 
when we praise him, or when we pray to him, at home, at 
school, or in church. (See Job 4 : 12, 21.) But bow down 
your hearts. The angels are surprised at you when they 



40 HOUES WITH THE YOUKGEST. 

see you careless before God ! They dare not do so ! how 
much less we! "Oh! come and let us worship, and fall 
down and kneel before the Lord Our Maker." 

Say that after me. It is in the Bible. We will learn it ; 
and then always remember to feel and do so. 

[They repeat Psalm 95 : 6, " come," etc., till they know it.*] 
[The Teacher sings :] 

Honor God's holy name, 

Speak it with thought and care ; 
Sing to it solemn hymns ; 

Breathe it in humble prayer ; 
But not with sudden call, 

In thy light joy or pain ! 
God will hold guilty all 

Who take his name in vain. 
Do not with hasty words, 

Yile and undutiful, 
Startle those angel guards, 

So pure and beautiful. 

[The children then repeat or sing it by lining.] 

Teacher. While John was in heaven a shining angel 
came and showed him many things. That angel was so 
glorious, and so kind, and so wise, that John fell down at 
the feet of the angel to worship him. But the angel said : 
" See that thou do it not ; for I am thy fellow-servant. . . . 
Worship God." 

Whose servant was that angel ? He is God's servant. 
God only is great. The glorious angels are his servants. 
The holy apostles are his servants. All good men are his 
servants. So are we. Yet he calls himself Our Father 
who is in heaven. Oh ! come let us worship and praise him 
indeed. 

[The Teacher sings Hymn 13 in Scholar's Book. The children repeat or 
sing it by lining.] 

Dismission. 

* Might not some verses of this and other chants be taught in infant school ? 
Oriental children do their studying in school by chanting ; and ours, if not 
checked, generally " learn aloud " in a quick, humming monotone, which 
seems as if they were naturally inclined to chant. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 41 



See Eighth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest. 



S&tbtxdtmfy S&mxan. 



SUBJECT. 

OMNIPRESENCE. GOD IS EVEEYWHERE. GOD 

IS A SPIRIT. GOD IS WITH US. 

[School opens with the Hymn before Worship, No. 68, followed by prayer.] 

Teacher. Where is God ? Two answers. First answer, 
God is in heaven. Second answer, God is here and every- 
where. Now tell me. Where is God ? [Replies.] Say it 
after me. God is in heaven. God is here and everywhere. 

[Repeat till known.] 

Yes, Our Father is in heaven ; but then, he is here, too, 
keeping our hearts beating, keeping us alive. Put your 
hand over your heart and feel how it beats. God is here, 
and keeps it going ; if he was not here, it would stop, and 
you would die. 

Let us sing : 

Little busy heart, 

Beating, beating away, 
Who keeps you beating, beating, 

By night as well as by day ? 

God moves each beating heart, 
God sends each gentle breath, 

God watches us all night, all day, 
And keeps us safe from death. 
[Sung.] 

Then where is God? [Replies.] God is here with us. 
And when we go out into the street, he will be there with 
us ; and when you reach home you will find him there. 
God is in your house now, and in your house, and in yours, 
and he is here, too ! God is everywhere all the time. 



42 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

Is this room light or dark ? What makes it light ? 
[Replies.] The sun. But where is the sun ? [Replies.] The 
sun is up in the sky ; but it shines into this room and 
makes it light. Do you think there is sunlight now in 
your house at home ? [Replies.] And in yours f [Replies.] 
And in yours t [Replies.] And in all your houses ? [Replies.] 
Yes, the sunlight is in all our houses at once. It is every- 
where, all over half the world. So, too, God is everywhere 
at once, all over the whole world, and in heaven, and in all 
places. 

We might shut out the sunlight. How ? [Replies.] But 
could we shut out God ? No, no one can shut out God. 
God is in the dark as well as in the light. (See Psalm 
139 : 11, 12.) Always, everywhere, you may say to your- 
self: "God is here ; he is keeping me alive ; he sees ; he 
hears ; he knows ; he can help me." 

Sing u Little gentle breath," all through — Hymn 4. 

Second Part. God is a Spirit 

Teacher. God is here. Say that after me, all in one 

Voice : GOD — IS — HERE. [They repeat, word by word.] Do you 

see him f [Free answers.] Why not ? [Replies.] Because he 
can not be seen ; but he is really here, keeping us alive. 
Look : I am breathing hard. [She lets them see and hear it.] Do 

you see my breath ? [Replies.] No. You see that I am 
breathing, but you can not see my breath. Did you ever 
see the breath coming out of the mouth and nostrils ? 
[Hands.] No, you did not ; even in cold weather, when you 
see a sort of cloud coming out, that is not breath ; it is only 
the steam that comes with it. The breath goes in unseen, 
and it comes out again unseen, with the steam. No one 
ever sees breath, because it can not be seen. 

Are you breathing ? I do not see your breath. But I 
know you have breath ; for if you could not get your breath, 
your faces would turn dark and you would begin to die. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 43 

Did you ever hear about Duke Richard's two little nephews 
in the Tower of London ? [Hands.] One of them was to bo 
king. But Richard wanted to be king himself, so he wished 
those boys were dead. One night, when they were sleep- 
ing in each other's arms, Richard sent bad men there to 
kill them. 

What did the men do to them ? They only took the pil- 
lows and held them close over the boys' faces, so that they 
could not get any breath. Poor boys ! they died in a few 
minutes ; and the bad men buried them in a hole at the 
foot of the stairs. 

Why did they die ? [Answers.] Because their breath was 
stopped. It is our breath that keeps us alive. So I know 
you all have breath, for you all are alive ; but I do not see 
your breath. 

I am looking hard at your faces. I know your breath is 
going in and coming out. Isn't it ? [Answers.] But it can 
not be seen. So, too, God is here with us all, keeping us 
alive ; but God can not be seen. He is a spirit ; that means 
he is like breath. 

Let us sing again, " Little gentle breath." Now I will 
tell you something our Lord Jesus said to the woman by 

the well. [The Teacher shows a picture of Jesus at the well.] It is 
written here in the fourth chapter of John. Jesus was sit- 
ting by the well. This woman came to draw water. She 
said to him : " Our fathers worshiped God on this -moun- 
tain, but you Jews say that we all ought to go to that 
church at Jerusalem." Jesus told her that the Jews knew 
about the true God ; but that Christians need not go to 
Jerusalem to worship him ; for God is everywhere, and he 
is pleased with all who pray to him and praise him with 
their hearts. Jesus said : " God is a spirit, and they that 
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 
Let us learn those words. John 4 : 24. Jesus said : 



44 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

"God is a spirit, — and they that worship him— must wor- 
ship him — in spirit and in truth." [They repeat till known.] 

Now what would you like to sing ? [Replies. They sing it 
standing.] 

Third Part. God is always with us. 
Say this little verse after me : 

I will not fear, 
For God is near 
Through the dark night, 
As in the light, 
And while I sleep, 
Safe watch will keep. 
Why should I fear 
When God is near ? 

Did you ever lie awake in the dark on your bed ? [Hands.] 
Did you feel afraid ? [Hands.] Did you want some one to 
come and sit by you ? [Hands.] You forgot then that God 
was there to take care of you ? You need not feel afraid. 
You are never left all alone. Say to yourself : 

" I will not fear, 
For God is near." 

Here is a sweet little text you shall learn, and then you 
can say it whenever you wake up. It is here in the 139th 
Psalm, 18th verse. Listen. " When I awake I am still 
with thee." Who are you with when you awake ? [Replies.] 
Yes, with God. Now learn that, [it is taught by repetition.] 
Tell me about the little boy who woke up and heard some 
one calling his name ? [Replies. Encourage them.] 

When little Samuel woke, who was with him ? [Replies.] 
Yes, and he is with you, too, when you awake. What does 
your text say ? [They repeat Psalm 139 : 18.] Now say after me : 

When little Samuel woke, 

And heard his Maker's voice, 
At every word he spoke, 
How much did he rejoice ! 
blessed, happy child ! to find 
The God of heaven so near and kind. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 45 

And I beneath his care 

May safely rest my head ; 
I know that God is there 
To guard my humble bed. 
And every sin I well may fear, 
Since God Almighty is so near. 

[The Teacher sings it to them, and promises to teach them the tune.] 



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See Ninth Lesson in Scholar's Book. 



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SUBJECT. 

OMNIPRESENCE. YOU ABE NEVER "ALL 
ALONE." REGINA. 

[School opens with the Hymn before Worship, No. 68, Scholar's Book. | 

Teacher. Repeat John 4 : 24. 

Children. John 4 : 24. God is a spirit. 

Teacher. Who said that ? 

Children. The Lord Jesus. 

Teacher. Yes ; and he said more. He said : u And they 
who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 
Say that after me. [They repeat the whole verse several times.] 

Teacher. We are going now to worship God ; let us be 
careful to do it in spirit and in truth. [The School unites in 
prayer.] 

Part I. You are never "all alone" 

Teacher. When you are walking out, and get far off 
from the others, and lose yourself, you are not alone. God 
is with you. Ask him to bring you safely home again. 



46 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 



REGINA. AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE. 

A long while ago there were Indians living here ; fierce, 
copper-colored men, with knives and sharp axes, and great 
bows and arrows. They did not love the white people, 
such as we are ; they did not want them to live here. 
They used to kill the white men, and burn their houses, 
and steal away their children. The Indians have all gone 
away long ago ; there are none here now. 

In those days, an honest farmer was living in his own 
new home, which he had built himself. There were bright 
flowers around it, which he had planted. His fields were 
full of corn, and wheat, and clover. At night his horses, 
and his oxen, and his cows were brought to his big barn 
and stable. He was very happy in his home, with his wife, 
and his sons, and his two little daughters. 

The eldest daughter was named Regina. It is her story 
I am going to tell you. Regina loved to hear her good 
mother talk about God, and read to her out of " the book 
in which God speaks to us," and sing sweet hymns to her 
and to the baby, as she sat knitting stockings and rocking 
the cradle. 

One morning, when Regina was about nine years old, her 
father and brothers went out to work in the fields ; and her 
mother said to her : " Regina, take good care of your little 
sister to-day ; and put bread, and pork, and cabbage on the 
table at dinner-time. I shall be away till evening. I must 
go and take corn to the mill, and bring home flour to make 
fresh bread; but I will be back before dark." So the 
mother kissed her little girls, and got a bag of corn out of 
the barn, and went along the path by the side of the brook. 
Regina stood watching her till she was quite out of sight. 
Then the little sister caught hold of Regina's dress, and 
clung to her, crying. She felt lonely and afraid. So did 
Regina. But she remembered God ; so she took the little 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 47 

one in her lap, and sang one of their mother's sweet hymns 
to her. Shall I tell you what she sang ? [Hands.] 

Alone, yet not alone am I ; 

Though in this solitude so drear, 
I find my Saviour ever nigh ; 

He comes the weary hours to cheer ; 
I am with him, and he with me ; 
E'en here, alone I can not be. 

The baby soon fell asleep. Regina began to pull up the 
weeds from among the flowers. Suddenly a bright light 
flashed upon her eyes ! The barn was in a blaze ! Then 
came a savage shout. The Indians were there. They set 
fire to the house. They caught up Regina and her little 
sister and ran with them to the woods. Poor Regina ! As 
they carried her through the fields she saw her father and 
her brothers lying there, all bleeding and dying. Poor, 
poor mother ! How would she feel when she came back in 

the evening ? [Here the School may exercise, if necessary.] 

I do not know what became of the little sister ; but I 
will tell you about Regina. The Indians carried her and 
many other white children to their rude villages, far off 
among the thick trees of the wild forest. Some they left 
in one place, and some in another. Regina and a younger 
child, named Louise, were given to an old Indian woman to 
live with her and be her little slaves. The old woman was 
cross and cruel to them. They had to go out in the heat, 
and the cold, and the wet, to dig up roots for her to eat 
They got very little food themselves ; nothing but such 
wild roots. They were often scolded and beaten. Poor 
little girls ! In that strange, lonely place.* No father ; no 
mother ; no brothers ; no friends ! But God was with 
them ; that was Regina' s only comfort. 

Every day, when their work was done, she would go with 
Louise to some quiet, mossy spot, and sit down there and 
teach her the hymns and the texts she had learned from 



48 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

her dear mother. Often they would kneel together and say 
over their little prayers, and ask God to be kind to them 
and to their mothers. Which of all her hymns did Regina 
love best then ? Which do you think ? [Replies.] This 
one : "Alone, yet not alone am I." Say it after me. 

Alone, yet not alone am I ; 

Though in this solitude so drear — 

(" Solitude" means a lonely place — ) 

Though in this solitude so drear, 
I find my Saviour ever nigh ; 

He comes the weary hours to cheer ; 
I am with him, and he with me ; 
E'en here, alone I can not be. . 

But was God really there with her ? And did he listen 
to them ? And did he do any thing for them ? 

We shall hear soon. But first, tell me, if you had been 
there among the Indians what hymns, and texts, and 
prayers could you have said ? Do you know any ? Or, 
would you forget English, and forget God, and be like a 
wild Indian ? Whoever knows a hymn, or a prayer, or a 
text, hold up your hands. Could you say it without any 
one there to help you ? Try. You, [names,] what could you 
say over so as not to forget English and to remember God ? 
[The Teacher encourages individuals to repeat all they can recall.] Now, 
rise — together. [Signal.] Sing, " When I look up." [Exer- 
cise.] 

Regina lived ten long years among the Indians, She was 
nineteen years old, a fine young woman. She wore the 
Indian dress. She spoke the Indian language ; but thanks 
to her prayers, and texts, and hymns, she had not forgotten 
her English, nor her mother, nor her God. Her poor 
mother was still alive, but she was growing old. She had 
looked everywhere for her lost daughters, and had given 
up all hopes of finding them, when she heard some very 
good news. She heard that the English soldiers had been 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 49 

fighting with the Indians, and had made them promise to 
bring back all the white people they had stolen away. 
They were to bring them to a town called Carlisle. So, 
Regina' s mother went to Carlisle to see whether her daugh- 
ters were among them. There she found four hundred 
white people, who had been brought back by the Indians, 
and many of them were girls ; but how could she tell whe- 
ther they were her daughters ? Her Regina, when she lost 
her, was a neat country child, just nine years old ; now, 
she must be nineteen, and browned by the sun, and dressed 
like a young squaw ; how could she know her ? The mo- 
ther walked along the lines ; she went from one to another ; 
she looked into their faces ; all seemed strange. Regina 
was there ; but even her own mother did not know her ! 
"But still," she thought, "Regina may know me, if, indeed, 
she is among them ;" and so, she passed again along the 
lines, and took one and another by the hand, but no one 
seemed to know her ; sorrow and years had altered the 
poor mother. She burst into tears. The English captain 
felt sorry for her. He said to her : "Is there not some- 
thing you could show, or something you could do, to make 
your daughter know you ?" " Perhaps," said the woman, 
"perhaps she might remember the songs I used to sing as I 
rocked the cradle." " Try," said the captain. So the moth- 
er began to sing, "Alone, yet not alone am I." She had 
sung it often to herself since her children and her husband 
had been taken from her. "Alone, yet not alone am I," 
she sang ; but, before she could begin another word, Re- 
gina's arms were round her neck. Regina was calling her: 
"Mother, mother, mother!" 

So the mother and daughter were together again, and 
happy. God had been with them both when they were 
parted. He had heard their prayers. He had brought 
them to each other. 

Let us learn to sing Regina' s favorite hymn ; but we will 



50 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

change it a little, to make it suit you, when you feel lonely 
at night or any time. Say it after me : 

Alone, yet not alone am I ; 

When all is dark and wild and drear, 
My heavenly Father still is nigh, 

He comes the weary hours to cheer ; 
I am with him, and he with me, 
So " all alone " I can not be. 

[They learn this by repeating and singing it.] 

There. You have one little new hymn to take home and 

sing to your mother. I will teach you one little new text 

to say to her, too. Repeat Proverbs 15 : 3. "The eyes 

of the Lord — are in every place — beholding the evil and the 

good." [Repeat till known.] 



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SUBJECT. 

YOU CAN NOT GET AWAY FROM GOD. DO NOT 
SIN. JONAH. 

See Tenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest. 
Teacher. If you wanted to do something wrong, could 
you get away from God ? [Replies.] 

JONAH. 

There was a man who tried to get away from God. His 
name was Jonah. God had told him to do something, and 
he did not want to do it. So he got into a ship with some 
heathen men, and thought he would go with them far over 
the sea to another country, and perhaps God would not be 
there. But you know " God is on the sea as well as on 
the land." God made the wind blow, and made the waters 
roll and dash against the ship, and it nearly sank. 

The men in it were afraid. They prayed to their idols. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 51 

But idols are nothing ; they are not alive. They could not 
hear or help them. The storm only grew more furious. 

Jonah was not praying. He had done just what children 
often do when they are naughty, and do not feel like pray- 
ing. He had laid himself down and gone fast asleep. They 
waked him and cried : " What do you mean, sleeper ? 
Rise up and call to your God. Ask him to save our lives.' , 
No doubt Jonah was frightened then. No doubt he knew 
then that God was there, and that God was angry with 
him. Perhaps he did not dare to pray to God. For the 
storm raged more and more, and the great swelling waves 
came foaming over the ship, and the men found out that it 
was all because of Jonah ! They asked him what he had 
done, and he told them. Then they said : " What shall 
we do to you, that we may not all be drowned with you ? " 
And Jonah said : " Take me up and cast me forth into the 
sea ; so shall the sea be calm unto you : for I know that 
for my sake this great tempest is upon you." As if he had 
said : " Throw me out of your ship. It is all my fault ; 
because I disobeyed God, and tried to get away from him. 
Throw me out into the sea." (See verses 9, 10, 12.) 

They did not like to do that. They rowed and rowed, 
and tried to bring the ship to land ; but they could not. 
Then they took up Jonah, and threw him out of the ship. 
As soon as he was gone, God hushed the wind and stilled 
the waters, and the ship was safe. Then all those heathen 
men kneeled down and thanked the God of heaven, and 
offered a sacrifice, and made promises to him. 

[Sing Hymn 5.] 

But where was Jonah ? He fell, and they saw him no 
more. But he was not drowned. God had made a great 
fish swim that way. It was hungry. It followed the ship 
to get something to eat. When Jonah was thrown out, it 
opened its great mouth, and took him all in without biting 
him. That did not kill him. He was alive inside of the 



52 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

fish. The fish dived down deep under the waters, — down, 
down where the floods were ail around about, — down, down, 
where far overhead the waves were rolling, — down where 
the great sea-weeds were growing among the solid rocks at 
the bottom of the mountains, — down, down where drowning 
men sink when they are dying. [See Jonah, second chapter.] 
Could any place be more lonely and lost than that ! If 
Jonah wanted to hide away from God, surely this was the 
place ! But was he hid ? [Replies.] No, and he did not 
want to be. He wanted help, and he cried out to God. 
Then he said : "I am cast out of thy sight ; yet I will look 
again toward thee, Lord, my God." And his prayer came 
in to the holy place where God shone in glory. God saved 
his life. God led the fish along towards the shore ; and 
on the third day it threw Jonah out of its mouth upon the 
dry land ! 

Then Jonah knew that God is everywhere, that God is 
powerful, that God is kind ; and he went and did what he 
had been told to do. This story of Jonah is in the Bible, 
here. [Showing the place.] There is more of it, besides what 
I have told you. 

Do you remember the text in Jeremiah 23 : 23, 24 ? 
[They repeat it.] Jeremiah 23 : 23, 24. " I am a God at hand 
— saith the Lord — and not a God afar off. — Can any hide 
himself — in secret places — that I shall not see him ? — saith 
the Lord. — Bo not I fill — heaven and earth ? — saith the 
Lord." [Repeated till known. See Ninth Lesson.] 

[Here the first and last verses of Hymn 9 are practised, and the children 
are admonished not to sin. Then the last two verses of Hymn 5 are prac- 
tised ; and the children are shown that they have sinned and do sin, and are 
directed to Christ for salvation, and told to ask to be forgiven for his 
sake.] 

[The School sings the first and the last verse of Hymn 9 : " When little 
Samuel," etc.] 

What do those last two lines say ? [Replies.] 

Repeat them. 

"And every sin I welljmay fear, 
Since God Almighty is so near." 



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SUBJECT. 

OMNIPRESENCE. GOD WATCHES YOU. PLEASE 
HIM. JESUS DID SO ALWAYS. " THY "WILL 
BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN." 

[School opens with hymn and with worship.] 

Teacher. Say this after me : 

Child, amidst the flowers at play, 
While the red light fades away ; 
Mother, with thine earnest eye, 
Ever following silently. 



Again : 
Again : 



Mother, with thine earnest eye, 
Ever following silently. 



Mother, with thine earnest eye, 
Ever following silently. 



Did you ever notice your mother's eyes when the little 
ones were playing around ? Those loving, careful eyes 
watching where they go, looking what they do ? [Hands.] 
No matter how busy she is ; mother works and works, but 
every moment her eye is off her work and on her child. 
Did you ever notice that ? [Hands.] And if the baby says 
something sweet, or does something pretty, mother smiles. 
And if baby looks up and sees mother looking and smiling, 
baby seems to know that mother is pleased ; and baby 
smiles too, and is happy. Have you not seen that ? [Hands.] 

Well, God watches us just so ; and if we do right he 
smiles and is pleased. It says so here in the Bible. Psalm 
147 : 11. " The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear 
him, in those fliat hope in his mercy." (See also Psalm 
149 : 4 ; Job 2 : 3 ; Proverbs 12 : 22.) 



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THE LORD'S PRAYER. 

Third Petition. 

Teacher. " Our Father — who art in heaven — hallowed 
be thy name ; — thy kingdom come," — what comes next ? 
[Replies.] Yes, " thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." 
Who told us to say that ? [Replies.] Our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Yes. We are to pray, " Thy will be done as it is in heaven," 
and we are to do what God likes as they do in heaven. 
We sing about that happy land, far, far away. [The children 
sing here the first verse of Happy Land, if they already know it.] What 
makes the saints and angels in heaven so happy ? [Replies.] 
What makes the baby happy when mother smiles ? Why, 
mother is there, mother is lovely, mother is pleased, the 
baby is happy. So, in heaven, the angels see God with 
them, and oh ! so good and lovely ! and he is pleased with 
them, and they are happy ; they sing for joy : " Singing 
glory, glory, glory be to God on high." You may be happy 
like the angels, even here, if you will do God's will on earth 
as they do it in heaven. Will you try ? [Hands.] Will 
you do those things that please God ? [»Hands.] 

But can any body please God as angels do ? There was 
a man here once who was better than the angels. God was 
more pleased with him than with them. Whom do I mean ? 
[Replies.] Yes, it was Jesus. He always did the things that 
pleased the Father. 

Sing, " Jesus who lives above the sky" — one verse. 

[See Hymn 2.] 

INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST. 
In illustration. 
Say this after me : 

I want to be like Jesus, 

So lowly and so meek ; 
For no one marked an angry word 

That ever heard him speak. 



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I want to be like Jesus, 

So frequently in prayer, 
Alone, upon the mountain side, 

He met his Father there. 

(See Luke 3 : 21-23.) When Jesus was about thirty 
years old, he went to the banks of the river Jordan, where 
John the Baptist was preaching to crowds of people. There 
Jesus was baptized ; and while he was praying the heaven 
was opened, and the Holy Spirit came down like a dove 
upon him, and a voice from heaven said : "This is my be- 
loved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (See Matt. 3 : 17.) 

Sing, "If God would Speak to me," etc. [Second verse of 

Hymn 7.] Sing, u Jesus who lives," etc., as far as "to a 
child." [Hymn 2.] (See John, fourth chapter.) One day 
Jesus and his friends were walking from one town to an- 
other. At mid-day Jesus sat down, tired and hungry, and 
his friends went to buy some food. Jesus was sitting so, 
beside this well. [Picture.] This woman came to draw 
water. She was a bad woman ; but Jesus asked her for a 
drink of water. She said to him, "Why do you ask me 
for water ? You are a Jew ; I am a Samaritan woman ; " 
(for the Jews and Samaritans had a quarrel, and did not 
speak.) But Jesus had no quarrels. He talked with her 
so sweetly and so well that her heart all melted down. She 
was sorry for her sin ; she loved him as her Saviour ; she 
ran to bring her town-people to Jesus, that they too might 
learn the way to heaven. While she was gone, the friends 
of Jesus came back with the things they had bought, and 
they said to him: "Master, eat" But Jesus said, "I 
have meat to eat that ye know not of ; " and then they saw 
that he no longer seemed faint or tired, but was full of 
strength and joy ; and they said to one another : " Has any 
one brought him any thing to eat ? " But no ; what made 
him feel so well was the good he had been doing ; for he 



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said to them : "My meat is to do the will of Mm that sent 
me, and to finish his work." 

Say after me, " I want to be like Jesus." [Hymn 11, first, 

second, and fourth verses. Singing.] 

(See John, eighth chapter.) One day when Jesus was 
here among men, [picture,] bad people came around him to 
disturb and vex him. They interrupted him. They con- 
tradicted him. They called him names. It seemed as if 
every one was turning against him. But they could not 
make him vexed. He said to them : " He that sent me is 
with me : the Father has not left me alone; for I do al- 
ways those things that please him." And so he did ; and 
so must we. Then God will be with us as he was with 
Jesus. 

(See also, Luke 2 : 49 ; John 10 : 17, 18 ; Luke 22 : 
41-43 ; Matt. 26 : 53, 54 ; John 18 : 11 ; 19 : 30 ; 17 : 4.) 

[Singing.] 



SUBJECT. 
OMNIPRESENCE. PLEASING GOD. J. P. W. 

See Eleventh Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest. 

Teacher. Can we always please God, as Jesus did ? 
[Replies.] No one is as good as Jesus ; but there are many 
people, yes, even children, who are like Jesus, and who 
please God. I will tell you about little James. 

JAMES P. W. 

There was a little boy that I knew. I think he was a 
very happy boy, for every body smiled when they looked at 
him. His name was James. His mother told him about 
God, at home. His aunt told him about God in the infant 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 57 

school. He loved to hear them. He believed all they said. 
He tried to please God and them. If ever he felt naughty 
and did wrong, he was very sorry for it. 

One day his aunt took him on her lap and showed him a 
picture of Jesus Christ dying for us on the cross. [The 
Teacher holds up such a picture.] She told him that Jesus died so 
because we are naughty ; that he died to save us from go- 
ing to hell for it. Then James began to crj^ and he kneeled 
down with her and asked God to forgive him for Jesus 7 sake, 
and to let him be Christ's own child, and to make him good. 
I think God did all this for him, for afterwards James did 
not often forget. He seemed always to remember God, and 
to want to please him. 

One summer James was visiting his uncle, in the coun- 
try, and he became very fond of the black carriage-driver, 
because he took him pleasant rides and walks. One Sun- 
day a girl in the kitchen said: a Do you know that little 
James never will go out to walk for pleasure on the Sabbath- 
day ?" " Why not?" " Because his mother has taught 
him not to go, but to keep all Sunday holy for God ; and 
you can't make him go." " Nonsense," said the driver, "I 
could get that little fellow to do any thing." 

Just then, James came into the kitchen. The driver 
called him and said : " There's a great big cherry-tree close 
to the fence, along that lane, just by the woods. It is full 
of ripe black cherries, good cherries, I tell you. The 
branches hang down over the fence nearly to the ground ; 
you can stand there and pull the cherries off for yourself, 
and eat as many as you want. Run and get your hat and 
I'll take you to it." u No," said James, "I can't go." 
" Why not ?" " It is Sunday." " Never mind that. Come 
along. Your mother won't know." " But God will know," 
said James, "and I won't go." Do not you think that our 
heavenly Father smiled when he heard James say that ? 
[nands.] Yes, for it showed that James loved him better 



58 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

than he loved ripe cherries ; he would rather please God 
than take a pleasant walk and eat nice fruit. Yes, I am 
sure our heavenly Father smiles on James. He is a happy- 
boy. Every one he lived with loved him. He sang hymns 
about heaven when he was dying; and now he is "right 
before the Saviour," where he can see him smile. 



SUBJECT. 

GOD IS PROM "EVERLASTING TO 
EVERLASTING." 

[School opens with Hymn 68, and with worship.] 

First Part. God is from everlasting. 

Teacher. Is there a baby in your house at home? 
[Hands.] Was it always there ? No. You remember the 
time when the baby was not there, and never had been. 
Do you know that you were your mother's baby once — a 
long while ago ? And there was a time before that when 
you had not yet been given to her. There was no such 
child as you in your father's house. There was a time 
when there were no children at all in your home, only your 
father and mother were there. That was a long while ago ! 
Yes it was ; — but there was a time when your father was 
only a baby ! — when your mother was only a baby ! There 
was a time before that ; — a time when father and mother 
had not lived yet. There was a time, oh ! how long ago ! 
when there were no people at all ! — and no world to live in ! 
— a time, oh ! how long ago ! when there were no stars, no 
moon, no sun, no angels ! They had not been made yet ; 
for all these things had a beginning. 

But then, "in the beginning," so long, long, long ago, 



A YEAR m THE INFANT SCHOOL. 59 

there was One there, — One who never had a beginning, for 
he always was, everywhere. Who ? [Replies.] 

Yes, God, our Heavenly Father, He always was, 
everywhere. u In the beginning God" was there. [Pause.] 
What is the first verse in the Bible ? [They repeat Genesis 1 : 1.] 

Teacher. In the beginning who was there ? 
Children. In the beginning God was there. 
Teacher. Say this : 

Holy, holy, holy One ! 
Lord Almighty, God alone ! 
Who, in heaven, and earth, and sea, 
Is, and was, and still shalt be ! 

I will sing that to you. [The Teacher sings the verse slowly and 
thoughtfully, as she wishes the Scholars to do.] Now rise and sing it. 
[They sing the same verse over several times.] 

Second Part. God is to everlasting. 

Teacher. 

" We are passing away, 
We are passing away, 
We are passing away, 
To the great judgment-day. " 

Say that after me, and we will sing it. [Repeated and sung 

several times. The children should be trained from the first to listen in si- 
lence when the Teacher's right hand is down, and to begin-to repeat together 
as soon as she raises it.] 

Teacher. What has become of the snow that covered 
the ground last winter ? Where is it ? Melted, gone, passed 
away. 

Where are the flowers that used to look so pretty in your 
garden ? Faded, gone, passed away. 

Where is that little pet you used to have ? I mean your 
bird ? your kitten ? your dog ? Dead. Dead and gone, 
passed away. 

Why can not you talk with Adam ? or with Abraham ? 
or with the Prophet Samuel ? or with Jonah ? or with Peter 



60 HOUES WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

and all the Apostles ? or with General Washington ? Why 
can not you talk with them ? They are dead, all dead, dead 
and gone, passed away. All the men and women that used 
to be in the world have passed away. 

But there is One who was before Abraham, before Adam, 
before all, and yet he is here with lis to-day ; we can speak 
to him, and he hears us. Who ? [Replies.] God. Yes, 
God. He is always, everywhere. God never passes 
away. 

Sing that verse again : " Holy, holy, holy One !" (See 
above.) 

Who is gone out of your house at home ? Will you see 
them there any more ? Do you not miss them ? Do you 
not want them very much sometimes ? But they are gone, 
gone, passed away ! Alas ! every one of your family will 
have to go when their time comes. Father, mother, sisters, 
brothers, one by one they will leave you ; passing, passing 
away. But you have one Friend who will never leave 
you. He never passes away. He will be with you al- 
ways, wherever you may go. Who will ? God. Yes, 
God is eternal. 

[The Teacher puts her watch to her ear and listens a moment ; then holds 
it in view while she repeats the following :] 

The watch is ticking, ticking, 

Ticking my minutes away ; 
The minutes make up the hours, 

And the hours make up the day. 

Say that. [They repeat line by line.] 
Sing with me : 

We are passing away, 
We are passing away, 
We are passing away, 
To the great judgment-day, 

The Teacher recites : 



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The clock is striking, striking 

The hours, so loud and clear ; 
The hours make up the day, 

And the days make up the year. 

Say that. [Repeated line by line.] 

Sing with me, "We are passing away," etc. 
The Teacher recites : 

The bell is tolling, tolling, 

Tor one whose day is done ; 
Where time is known no longer 

That weary soul has gone. 

Say that. [Repeating.] Sing with me, " We are passing," 
etc. But God is not passing away. Rise and sing with 

me: u Holy, holy, holy One." [The same verse is sung over seve- 
ral times.] Sit down. [The Teacher reads aloud.] 

Psalm 27 : 10 : " When my father and my mother forsake 
me, then the Lord will take me up." Say that after me. 
[Repeating.] Now, we will sing something you know well. 
What shall it be ? [Replies. It is sung standing.] 

THE ORPHAN'S LETTER. 
(A fact in illustration.) 

There was a poor boy, very poor and ignorant ; but he 
lived where they all have to go to school ; so he could read 
and write. His father fell sick ; he could not work. His 
mother was sick too. They spent all they had for food and 
for medicine, but they grew worse and died, both of them. 
The poor boy was left alone. His father and his mother 
had passed away from him. Whom could he go to ? 

He sat and thought. He remembered that once some 
one had told him to go to the Lord Jesus ; and he said 
to himself: "If he is a lord he must be rich; and I sup- 
pose he is kind to the poor. I would go to him if I knew 
where he lives." 

He sat and thought again. Then he jumped up and tore 



62 HOUES WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

a leaf out of his copy-book, and began to write a letter. 
He wrote this in his letter : " Father and mother are dead. 
I have nothing to eat. They say you are very good. Please 
have pity on me and do something for me." And -he wrote 
his name in the letter, and told where he lived. Then he 
folded it up as well as he could ; and he wrote upon the 
outside : "To the Lord Jesus Christ." 

He carried this strange letter to the post-office and put it 
in. He need not have taken all that trouble. The Lord 
Jesus Christ was in the room with him. He might have 
spoken to him. But he did not know that. He put the 
letter in the office, and thought that the men there would 
send it to the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Did the Lord Jesus ever read that letter ? [Replies.] The 
Lord sees every thing ; he saw what was written in that 
letter. 

Did he do any thing for the boy ? Yes, he sent him a 
good friend. I will tell you about it. 

The letter lay in the post-office, with many others. A 
gentleman in there was sending the letters away to the per- 
sons they were for. When he picked up this one he stopped 
and read the name over again. " To the Lord Jesus Christ." 
" How strange !" said he ; and he opened it and read the 
inside. " Now," thought he, " I will see whether there is 
any such boy ; for, if this is a trick, it is a very silly and 
wicked one." So he went to the place that was mentioned 
in the letter, and there he found the boy, and he saw that 
it was all true. The gentleman felt sorry for him. He took 
him home with him, and let him live there. So, you see 
the Lord Jesus did take care of the boy. When his father 
and his mother forsook him then the Lord took him up. 

Let us learn that text ; then we will sing " Passing 
away," and "Holy, holy, holy," once more. [Psalm 27 : 10 is 
taught by repetition, and Hymn 12 is sung in part as above, or complete, a3 
given in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest.] 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 63 

See Twelfth Lesson. 

[In this Session Hymn 12 may be accompanied with gestures, imitating the 
ticking of the watch with the forefingers, the striking of the clock with the 
hands, and the swinging of the bell with the right arm ; but changing to per- 
fect stillness in the chorus, and especially in the closing recitation.] 



SUBJECT. 
GOD'S ETEBNAL A35TD PERFECT HOLINESS. 
Visions of the Apostle John and the Prophet Isaiah. 

[School opens with Hymn 68, and with worship.] 

First Part. God is always good. The praise in heaven. 

Teacher. " Our Father is in heaven.'' Who else is in 
heaven with God ? [Replies.] Do you remember about the 
man who saw a door opened in the blue sky, and heard a 
voice saying, "Come up here and I will show you things" ? 

[See Fifteenth Session.] What was that man's name ? [Replies.] 
John, the Apostle John. Then it seemed to him that he 
was there and saw. Who can tell me what he saw ? If 
you can tell, hold up your hand. [Hands. Replies.] 

John was alone one day among the hills. It seemed to 
him that the blue sky above him opened, and a voice called 
to him : " Come up here." Then he was carried up in the 
spirit into heaven, where God shows himself. The place 
was full of angels ; ten thousand times ten thousand and 
thousands of thousands. But nearer to God than the an- 
gels sat four and twenty men ; men who had died long since 
and had gone to heaven. 



64 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

There they were, in their pure white robes, with their 
golden crowns, sitting on thrones, placed around the throne 
of God. But nearer even than they were four noble living 
beings ; four who were close to God, (See Kev. 4 : 6,) and 
they — they never stopped, no, not for a moment — saying, 
"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who is, and was, 
and is to come." What do those noble living ones say 
about God ? [Replies.] They say : "Holy, holy, holy, Lord 
God Almighty." What does holy mean? What do they 
mean when they say that God is holy ? They mean that 
God is good and right. Holy means good and righteous. 
God always is good. God always does right. God always 
feels right. 

Tell me, did you ever say, "Now I am going to be 
good ?" And did you begin to try to be quite good all the 
time ? [Replies.] Well, this is what I want to ask you, 
how long did you go on being good ? How long could you 
keep to it? [Replies.] All day? A week? A month? 
How long ? [Replies.] Did not you forget after a while ? Did 
not you find it very hard to keep on being so very good ? 

You felt happy while you were trying to be good ; you 
thought you would like to be good always ; but you did not 
keep on ; you got naughty. But hear this : God is good all 
the time. God has lived always ; before Abraham, before 
Adam, before the world was made ; he has been living thou- 
sands and millions of years ; yet, in all that long, long time, 
God has never once done wrong ! God has never once 
wanted to do wrong ! God has never once felt like doing 
wrong ! He loves all that is right and good. He is all 
right and good. God is perfectly holy. God is good all 

THE WHILE. 

What a difference there is between God and you ! He 
is so much better than you are. 

Sing, " Holy, holy, holy One," etc. [Hymn 13. It can be 
Bung all through by lining, if not known.] 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 65 

Second Part. God is perfect. Isaiah's vision. 

Another man saw God among the angels, and wrote about 
it in the Bible. His name was Isaiah, the Prophet Isaiah. 
Who was it that saw God ? [Replies.] The Prophet Isaiah. 
Isaiah was not caught up into heaven to see. No ; but God 
came to him and showed himself. Shall I tell you where 
he was and what he saw ? It is written here. [Showing the 

sixth chapter of Isaiah. Hands.] 

Isaiah was in the great church, or temple, at Jerusalem. 
Here is a picture of it. [She shows it and lays it aside.] Isaiah 
was alone there. He heard a voice ! — voices ! — answering 
one another! At the sound the columns shook and the 
posts of the doorway trembled ; — God was entering in ! 
The house was filled with brightness, veiled in cloud! 
God was there ! Was not God there before ? [Replies.] 
Oh ! yes, and he is here now, too, but we do not see him, 
for he is a spirit. But God can show himself when he 
chooses ; and he showed himself in the temple to Isaiah. 
What did Isaiah see ? 

Isaiah saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted 
up ; its rich hangings filled the temple. Above it stood the 
seraphim, the glorious living ones. Each one had six 
wings. With two he flew. With two he covered himself. 
With two he covered his face. And one cried to another 
and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The 
whole earth is full of his glory." And the posts of the 
doorways moved at the voice of him that cried, and the 
house was filled with glory, vailed in cloud. 

Then Isaiah cried out : " Ah me ! ah me ! what will be- 
come of me ? I shall die ! because I am a man of unclean 
lips, and I belong to a people of unclean lips ; for my eyes 
have seen the King, the Lord of hosts !" 

But God is kind. He comforted Isaiah, and made him 
fit to speak for him ; and then he sent him with a message 
to the people. 



66 HOUKS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

Let us sing like those seraphim: "Holy, holy, holy." 

[They rise and sing Hymn 13, all the verses.] 

Teacher. Children, do you know any girl who is a very 
good girl ? Do you know any boy who is a very good boy ? 
One who likes to do right and will not do wrong ? Always 
honest and true, always kind and obliging^? [Hands.] Who 
is it ? Do you know any very good lady ? Any very good 
gentleman ? Who is the very best man or woman that you 
know of ? [Replies.] Do they ever do any thing wrong ? 
[Replies.] It seems to you as if they never did ; as if they 
were always good and lovely. You think no one could be 
better than they are. Let me tell you that God is better ; 
God is much better than the best of men. The holy Pro- 
phet Isaiah was ashamed of himself before God. He saw 
God, the holy God. He remembered the hasty words, an- 
gry words, perhaps, that he had sometimes spoken ; words 
that had made his lips unclean. He felt ashamed. He 
cried out for fear. What did he say ? [Replies.] Even the 
angels felt very humble before God. What did the angels 
do ? [Replies.] They covered their faces with their wings. 

[The Teacher sings :] 

Angels shrink within their wings, 
Each low bending as he sings : 
" Holy, holy, holy Lord, 
Be thy glorious name adored." 

But you know a lady or a gentleman who never does 
wrong, at least, you think so, do you ? [Hands.] Perhaps, 
however, if you lived in the same house and saw them all 
the while, some time or other you might see them do some- 
thing wrong. When we are much with people we find out 
their faults. But no one ever sees God do wrong, for he 
never does. He has no faults. Those who are the nearest 
to him praise him the most. Who was it that John heard 
saying holy, holy, holy ? [Replies.] It was the living ones 
who were close to the throne of God. They were full of 
eyes. They see him always, and " they rest not day or night, 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 67 

saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty." And 
who was it that Isaiah saw covering their faces and saying, 
"Holy, holy, holy," till the posts of the doorways moved 
and trembled at the sound ? It was the seraphim, those 
who had carried along God's chariot throne, when he came 
to speak to the prophet ; and now they were waiting around 
him till he had done giving his message. (Compare Ezekiel 
1st chapter, and 3 : 12-14, 10th chapter, etc., with Psalm 
18 : 10.) And one cried to another and said : " Holy, holy, 
holy, Lord God Almighty." Those who see most of God 
know test how good he is. He has no faults. 

Stand up again and sing, " Holy, holy, holy One," and 
sing it reverently, as angels do. [Singing Hymn 13.] 



Cfcaenijr-sktjr ^mwn. 

See Thirteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 

Youngest. 



SUBJECT. 
CHRIST JESUS IS OUR ETERNAL AND PERFECT 

SAVIOUR. 

(See Hebrews 1 : 8, etc. ; 2 : 9, 10 ; 7 : 24 to end ; 10 : 
19-25 ; Rev. 22 : 13, 16, 17.) The Lord and Peter— Luke 
5th. Our message. 

[School opens with Hymn 68, and with worship. 

Teacher. Who can tell me the story of the Orphan's 

Letter? [Hands.] Well, tell it. [Replies, the Teacher helping. 
See Twenty-third Session.] Who is the Lord Jesus Christ ? [Re- 
plies. Pictures used.] Jesus is God's only Son. — He came 



68 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

down from heaven — and was made a man. — He died for us 
upon the cross. — He came out of his grave alive again. — ■ 
He went back to heaven. — He will come again in the clouds. 
— The Lord Jesus Christ is our living Saviour. — Say that 
after me. [The paragraph is repeated, phrase by phrase.] 
[The Teacher sings :] 

There's a Friend above all others, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
His is love beyond a brother's, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
Earthly friends may fail and leave us, 
Earthly love may change and grieve us, 
Jesus never will deceive us, 

Oh ! how he loves 1 

Jesus shed his blood to save us, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
All our hopes of heaven he gave us, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
Looking down, he hears, he sees us, 
Still the same, our Friend, our Jesus, 
Still the same, our Friend, our Jesus, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 

Teacher. The Lord Jesus is God's only Son; and all 
that is true of God is true of Jesus. In the beginning he 
was there with God, (see John 1 : 1, 14,) and he will be 
there forever and ever ; he will never die again. (See Rev. 
1 : 18.) [The Teacher sings :] "We are passing awaj% we are 
passing away, we are passing away, to the great judgment- 
day ;" — and at the great judgment, the sky and the earth 
will pass away like smoke, (see Rev. 20 : 11,) but Jesus 
icill ~be there, and lie can save us. Jesus will never pass 
away. He can keep us safe at the judgment-day ; and after 
the judgment, too, alicays, evermore, to the uttermost. (See 
Hebrews 7 : 25.) There never can come a time when Jesus 
will not be there to save us, if we are his trusting children. 
But, if you do not love and mind him, he will send you to 
hell at the great judgment-day ; and he will always be near 



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to punish you, and you can never get away from him. (See 
Ps. 139:8; Rev. 14 : 10.) Oh ! then, be Christ's child. 

Jesus, I thy child would be. 
Jesus, I would follow thee. 
Samuel was thy child of old. 
Take me, too, into thy fold. 

Do you feel so ? Do you want to be one of Jesus' child- 
ren ? Then tell him so to-day, in some place alone ; and be 
sure to do just as he wants you to. 

Say this after me : 

Oh ! to come to thee ; oh ! to come to thee, etc. 

[The first and the last verse of Hymn 14 are once repeated, and then sung, 
by lining, if the tune is familiar; otherwise, "I want to be an angel," or, 
"Around the throne," or, " God is in heaven," maybe sung, standing- 
Hymns 59, 60, 54.] 

PETER m PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 

[The Teacher shows a picture in which the Lord Jesus is the principal 

figure.] Who is this ? [Replies.] It is our Lord Jesus Christ. 
He is God's own Son. What is true of God is true of him. 
Jesus is eternal — and holy — and almighty. Say that after 

me. [The last sentence is repeated by phrases.] 

TEACHER. [Pointing to the figure in the picture.] This looks like 

a man. Is the Lord Jesus a man ? [Replies.] He came 
down from heaven and made himself a man to do us good. 
He has gone back to heaven, and he is there with God. 
When he comes again we shall see him as he is now ; and 
we shall be like him, if we are his people. (See 1 John 
3 ; 2, 3 ; 2 : 28.) 

When Jesus was here among men he was walking one 
morning beside a lake of water. He saw two boats there. 
The men had gone out of them, and were washing their 
fishing-nets, for they were fishermen. They had been work- 



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ing hard all night trying to catch fish. Do you know how 
men catch fish with a net? [Hands.,] [Picture.] They throw 
the net in. Then they draw it at the edges like a bag when 
we pull the strings. They drag the net along and the fish 
with it, and lift them out of water with the net. These 
fishermen had been hard at work all night, throwing in 
their net and drawing the edges together, and pulling it 
along to bring the fish to land ; but every time, when they 
opened the net, there was nothing in it. They were tired 
of trying ; so they had left off, and were washing their nets. 
It was morning. The Lord Jesus came that way. He 
stepped into one of the boats ; it belonged to Simon Peter. 
Jesus asked him to push it out a little way from the land. 
He did so, and Jesus sat down in the boat, and talked to 
the people who were on the banks of the lake, for many had 
come there to hear him. When he had done preaching, 
Jesus said to Peter : " Take the boat further out, where the 
water is deeper, and let down your nets to draw in the fish/' 
Peter said : " Master, we were working all last night, and 
caught nothing, yet, at your word, I will let down the net." 
He let it down and began to draw it. It was heavy ; he 
could not pull it alone ; it was full of fish, so full it began 
to break. He was afraid the fish would spill out and get 
away. He beckoned to his partners to come in another boat 
and help him. They came, and filled both boats so full of 
fish that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw this 
he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying : " Depart from me, 
for I am a sinful man, Lord I" For he was astonished 
at the quantity of fish they had taken. He knew that 
Jesus had done it. There, in the boat with him, sat 
the Lord, the Holy One. He was afraid before him. He 
cried out: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, 
Lord!" (See also Luke 4 : 32-34.) But Jesus said: 
"Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men." He 



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meant: "I will send you to draw men to me by telling 
them of my love." And Jesus kept his word, as he always 
does ; he made Peter an apostle and a missionary. 

Peter was one of the holy apostles. Are you better than 
he was. [Replies.] Why did Peter feel so ashamed of him- 
self ? "Why did he cry out so for fear ? Because he found 
that the great and holy Lord was there close to him. Sup- 
pose now, while you sit there, you should look up and see, 
not me standing here, but the Lord Jesus himself, so mighty 
and so holy. He would look at you. He knows all that 
ever you did. How would you feel ? [Pause.] Ashamed 
of yourself, I think ; perhaps afraid. 

But if lie saw that you were sorry for your bad ways, 
and would turn from them, he would forgive you and speak 
kindly to you, as he did to Peter ; and perhaps he would 
let you do something for him too. Would you like to do 
something for the Lord Jesus ? 

Well, you know he is here, and can hear you when you 
speak to him in your thoughts. Speak in your thoughts 
now. Ask him to forgive you. Ask him to give you some- 
thing to do for him. [Pause.] 

Sing " God rides the roaring winds." [Hymn 5 sung stand- 
ing.] 

ISAIAH— OUR MESSAGE. 

Who remembers about Isaiah in the temple? [Hands.] 
Tell me what you remember ? [Replies, with help.] I will tell 
you a little more of that true story, for there is more of it. 
Shall I ? [Hands.] Well, God comforted Isaiah, and made 
his mouth clean from bad words and fit to speak God's 
words. So Isaiah stood before God in the temple, feeling 
humble, but happy. His heart was full of love. Then he 
heard God's voice saying : " Whom shall we send ? and 
who will go for us?" And he said: "Here I am; send 
me." Then God gave him a message to take, and said: 



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"Go, say these words for me to the people." And he 
went. 

Are you better than the holy Prophet Tsaiah ? [Replies.] 
Suppose there was a sudden flash of light here, and you 
looked up and saw what Isaiah saw, the Holy, Holy, Holy 
One on his throne, among bowing seraphim, how would 
you feel ? You would be ashamed. You would cry out 
for fear ! But if you really love him, like Isaiah, God 
would comfort you too. He would say: " Jesus has died 
for you, I forgive you for his sake. I have washed you 
clean from your bad words and ways." Then, if God 
should say, " Whom shall we send ? and who will go for 
us ? " would you answer, like Isaiah, " Here I am ; send 
me"? Do you think you would? [Hands.] Well, that 
holy One is here. He is willing to forgive you and to make 
you clean. Will you ask him to ? [Hands.] Then he has 
a message for you to take. Will you take a message for 
God ? [Hands.] You will ? Do then. This is the message : 
" Come to Jesus." God says: " Let him that heareth say, 
Come." He says so here in the Bible. [Showing Rev. 22 : 17.] 
Go now and say to every one you speak to : " Come to 
Jesus." Will you carry that message home for God ? 
[Hands.] "Will you tell it to many people ? [Hands.] What 
is it ? What is God's message ? [Replies.] Say it after me 
all together: "Come to Jesus." Now go and tell them: 
" God sends you word that Jesus is the Saviour. Come to 
Jesus." 



See Fourteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 

Youngest. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 73 

SUBJECT. 

HOLINESS. "HALLOWED BE THY" NAME." 
THIRD COMMANDMENT. 

[This is a practical application of the teachings of Sessions Fifteenth, 
Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, etc., which the Teacher will review, more or less, 
while dictating the verses.] 

[School opens with Hymn 68, and with worship.] 

Teacher. What comes after " Our Father" in the Lord's 
Prayer? [Replies.] u Who art in heaven. " 

What are they saying always who see him there in hea- 
ven? [Replies.] " Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, 
who was, and is, and is to come." 

Stand up and sing that. 

[They sing "Holy, holy," etc., Hymn 13.] 

What comes next in the Lord's Prayer? [Replies.] Hal- 
lowed be thy Name. Hallowed means made holy, thought 
holy, called holy. The angels hallow God's name. Do you 
think they ever speak it carelessly ? [Replies.] The angels 
go about here among men doing errands for God. They 
are all spirits, so we do not see them ; but they come, all 
round about us. [See Ps. 91 : 11 ; Heb. l : 14.] What must they 
think when they hear people curse and swear ! They are 
shocked. They wonder. 

Say this after me : 

Hush, little Christian child ! 

Speak not that holy name, 
Not in thy passion wild, 

Not in thy playful game. 

Hush ! holy angels hear ! 

Softly they come and go, 
Watching with love sincere, 

Shielding from sin and wo. 



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Do not with hasty words, 

Yile and undutiful, 
Startle those angel guards, 
So pure and beautiful. 

[This is practised, or learned, by singing repeatedly.] 

Teacher. I suppose the angels are with us often. Who 
is with us all the time ? [Replies.] Does he listen to us ? 
[Replies.] Does he care what we say ? [Replies.] 

Eepeat this after me, "Hush, little Christian child," etc. 

[The first and third verses are sung frequently. Finally, the whole hymn 
is sung in order. Hymn 8.] 

Teacher. God hears when people swear. Does he listen 
when we pray ? and when we sing hymns ? [Replies.] Yes, 
and if we speak his holy name as angels do, God is pleased 
with us ; but when we say it or sing it carelessly, is he 
pleased? [Replies.] Oh! no; he counts that a great sin. 
He will punish us if we do so. God says : " Thou shalt 
not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; for the 
Lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in 
vain." 

Say that after me. [Repeated, with explanations.] 

Repeat this hymn. [15 in Scholar's Book.] 

[Repeated and sung by lining.] 



®jprtbt|y &taman. 



See Fifteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest. This is a good point for reviewing, especially 
Hymns 3, 8, 13, 15, and the accompanying texts. 



A YEAR IN* THE INFANT SCHOOL/ 75 

SUBJECT. 

HOLINESS OF GOD. HIS MORAL GOVERNMENT. 
HE LOVES VIRTUE AND REWARDS IT. THE 
SHUNAMITE. JOSEPH AND FREDDY". MR. 
MARSH AND HIS LITTLE DAUGHTERS. THE 
THREE BROTHERS. 

[School opens with singing Hymn 8. The Teacher reads aloud Romans 
2 : 6-10, explaining if necessary. Prayer.] 

Teacher. Does God care what we say ? [Replies.] Does 
he care what we do ? [Replies.] If you are naughty, does 
God care about it ? Yes, he cares ; he will punish you. 
If you are good, does God care about it ? Yes, he cares ; 
he will make you happy. He is all good himself; and Tie 
wants us all to be good. 

THE SHUNAMITE. 

(See 2 Kings 4 : 8, etc.) 

A rich lady lived in a handsome house by the side of a 
road in Shunem. Elisha often went along that road. Elisha 
was a prophet ; one of God's messengers. Who was Elisha ? 

[Replies.] 

One day the lady of Shunem invited Elisha to come in 
and eat at her house. She asked him so kindly that he 
could not refuse. After that he often stopped there, in 
travelling, to take dinner or supper. Then she said to her 
husband : " Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man 
of God, which passeth by us continually. Let us make a 
little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall, and let us set for 
him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick ; 
and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn 
in thither." So they built the little bedroom for Elisha 
against the outside wall of the house ; and when he was 



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passing that way, he used to go in and lie down upon the 
bed to rest. God saw this woman's kindness to his mes- 
senger. He was pleased. He did something for her. He 
sent her a dear little baby boy to be her son. He knew 
that was the very thing she wanted. 

One day, when her son could run about alone, he went 
into the field to his father. It was hot summer. The reap- 
ers were cutting the grain. The sun shone fiercely down 
upon them. It shone on the boy's little curly head. He 
felt sick and dizzy. He cried out to his father, " My head ! 
my head !" And his father said to a lad : " Carry him to 
his mother." And when he had taken him and brought 
him to his mother, he sat upon her lap till noon ; and then 
he died. And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the 
man of God, in his little room ; and then she hastened away 
to find the man of God. And she said to her man-servant : 
" Drive. Go forward. Slack not thy riding for me, unless 
I tell thee." So they rode, and came to the man of God, 
to the hill Carmel ; and she threw herself down before 
Elisha and held him by the feet. And she said : " Did I 
desire a son of my lord ?" (That is, " Did I ask to have a 
son ?") Then Elisha said to his servant Gehazi : " Take 
my staff, and go straight to Shunem, and lay the staff upon 
the face of the child." But the mother of the child said : 
u As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave 
thee." So Elisha arose and followed her. Gehazi passed 
on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child ; 
but there was neither voice nor hearing. Wherefore he went 
back again to meet Elisha, and told him, saying : " The 
child is not awaked." And when Elisha was come into the 
house, behold, the child was dead, and lying upon his bed. 
He went in, therefore, and shut the door upon them two, 
and prayed to the Lord. And he went up and lay upon 
the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes 
upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands ; and he 



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stretched himself upon the child ; and the flesh of the child 
grew warm. Then Elisha returned and walked in the house 
to and fro ; and went up, and stretched himself upon him ; 
and the child opened his eyes. Then he sent Gehazi to 
call the mother ; and when she was come in, Elisha said : 
" Take up thy son." Then she went in and fell at his feet, 
and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and 
went out. 

See how God loved this woman for her kindness to Elisha. 
He gave her a son when she had not even asked for one ; 
and afterwards, when he was dead, he made him alive and 
gave him to her again. The righteous Lord loves righteous- 
ness. Say that after me. Psalm 11 : 7. The righteous 
Lord loveth righteousness. [Repeated two or three times.] Sing, 
14 1 want to be like Jesus." [Hymn 11.] 

Teacher. This story of the Shunamite is true. God has 
done many things as wonderful for those who love him ; 
but he does not do these wonders very often. Yet every 
day God is showing to us all that he loves good people and 
hates wicked ones. God is for the good ones ; he makes 
them happy. 

JOSEPH AND FREDDY. 

Joseph and Freddy have been very sick ; but they are 
getting well. They are not well, though, and they feel like 
being cross. Joseph says to himself : " I won't be cross. 
I will be good-humored and kind for mother's sake." So 
he gets his little book and shows pictures to the baby. 
Then he winds sewing-silk for his sister. He keeps himself 
busy and pleasant. He sings his songs. But Freddy is 
fretting and scolding, and flying into a passion every min- 
ute. Which feels happy in his heart, Freddy or Joseph ? 
[Replies.] Yes, Joseph. We always feel hajipy when we are 
good; and when we are had we feel sad and restless. God 



78 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

has made us so ; for he is good himself, and he loves all 
that is good. 

In the bright part of the day, an aunt of Joseph and 
Freddy drives up to the door in her carriage. She is taking 
her own children a nice ride, and there is room in the car- 
riage for one more. She says to her children : " We will 
stop here and take one of your cousins riding with us. 
Which would you rather have, Joseph or Freddy ?" " Jo- 
seph, Joseph," they all say ; "we want Joseph to go with 
us. He is always good-humored. But Freddy is so cross ; 
we won't have him." So Joseph gets the ride, and Freddy 
is left at home. Why ? Because people like those who are 
Jcind and pleasant. God makes it so ; for he is good him- 
self. 

Sing, " Holy, holy, holy One." [Hymn 13.] 

MR. MARSH AND HIS LITTLE DAUGHTERS. 

Mr. and Mrs. Marsh live in a fine white house, with a 
large garden around it. Jane and Susan are their little 
daughters. Mr. Marsh is just coming home to dinner. He 
is carrying two beautiful little rose-bushes, in pretty little 
china flower-pots. He bought them a few minutes ago 
from a boy in the street. He is taking them home to give 
them to Jane and Susan. Mrs. Marsh is near the garden- 
gate. She is tying up some vines there. She sees Mr. 
Marsh and the rose-bushes, and she smiles. "I am glad," 
she says, " that you have brought something pretty. Give 
it to Susan. She has been working for you all the morn- 
ing, weeding your strawberry-bed. I told her to do it, and 
she always obeys me. She loves to work for you." u But 
where is Jane ?" " Jane would not mind me," answered 
Mrs. Marsh. " I told both the girls to pull up the weeds ; 
but Jane would not help at all. So I sent her away to her 
own room." " Then," said the father, "let her stay in her 
room till after dinner. I do not want a naughty girl at 






A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 79 

table with me. And I will not give her this flower-pot, 
either. Susan shall have them both." Then he called, 
" Susan, Susan," and little busy Susan looked up from the 
strawberry-bed, and wiped her hot face, and smoothed her 
hair with her hands, and ran to kiss her papa. " Come 
along, my little pet," said Mr. Marsh ; " I will help you 
plant these two sweet rose-bushes in your own garden." 
Fathers and mothers love their good children lest, and do 
most to please them. God has made it so ; for he loves all 
that is good. 
Sing, " Oh ! do not be discouraged." [Hymn 7.] 

THE THREE BROTHERS. 

In a certain school three boys were sitting together on a 
bench. They had a lesson to learn. William was study- 
ing it with all his might. He meant to know it well. Harry 
had leaned his head on his book, and was going to sleep. 
John was pinching Willie, and pulling Harry's hair, to 
make them play. This is the way they did every time they 
went to school. 

At last the term ended. It was examination-day. When 
the gentlemen came in to examine the school, which an- 
swered the questions best ? Lazy Harry ? Careless John ? 
or steady Willie ? [Replies.] 

The teacher had promised to give a handsome present on 
that examination-day, to the best scholar. He had brought 
it with him. It was lying before him on his table ; but it 
was all tied up in brown paper. All the scholars were sit- 
ting in their places, looking at that parcel and wondering 
what was in it. What do you think the teacher was going 

to give ? What WOuld you like to have ? [Replies. The Teach- 
er observes what they seem to value most, and says that was the premium.] 

The teacher untied the strings and took off the brown paper, 

and held up the before them all. It was so handsome 

that the children could scarcely help crying out, u Oh ! 



80 HOUES WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

oh ! " when he took it out of the paper and held it up. 
" This is a reward for the best -scholar," said he. " Need 
I tell you his name ? " And all sat still and breathless to 
hear the name. Do you think it was lazy Harry ? Was 
he the best scholar ? [Replies.] Do you think careless John 
was the best scholar ? [Replies.] Who was, then ? 

" William Hyde," said the teacher. William stood up, 
and the ladies and gentlemen present all leaned forward to 
look at the boy who was the best scholar. Then steady 
Willie marched up to the platform before them all ; and the 
teacher gave him the beautiful reward. For those scholars 
who study hardest and Jceep rules best, get the honors and 
prizes at school. God makes it come so ; because God loves 
all that is good. 

Say this after me : 

Isaiah 3 : 10. Say ye to the righteous — that it shall be 
Well with him. [Repeated.] 

How is it well with the righteous even here ? Answer 
as I do, counting on your fingers : 

1. We feel happy when we are good. 

2. People like those who are true and kind, 

3. Fathers and mothers love their good children best, 
and do most to please them. 

4. The good scholars get the honors and prizes. 

5. Those who do well are respected, and helped, and 

employed. [Repeated.] 

The rest of the story of Harry, John, and Willie would 
show you this. Perhaps I will tell it to you some other 
time. But now tell me, how does God reward good people 
after they die ? [Replies.] 

Repeat. In heaven they live happy forever. 

Sing, " There is a happy land." [if known, not otherwise.] 

Repeat. 

Then if you want to go there, what must you be ? Good 
and holy. Why? Because God is good himself, and 

HE LOVES ALL THAT IS GOOD. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 81 

Cfpfg-Smmft Session, 

See Sixteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 

Youngest. 



SUBJECT. 

HOLINESS OF GOD. RETRIBUTION. THE SAV- 
IOUR'S REWARD. SATAN'S DOOM. 

[School opens with Hymn 68, and with worship.] 
Teacher. Sing, "Holy, holy, holy One." [Hymn 13.] 
Teacher. Who can repeat Psalm 11 : 7? [Hands.] Let 
me hear you. [Repeating.] Who is "the Lord"? [Replies.] 
God our heavenly Father. "Righteous," all right; who is 
all right ? [Replies.] The Lord is. " The righteous Lord 
loveth righteousness." What does God love? [Replies.] 
God loves all that is right ; he loves those who do right ; 
and he rewards them too ; he makes them happy. Say that 

after me. [Repeated once.] 

First Part. Jesus, the Holy One. Sow God rewards 
Mm. 

Teacher. Was there ever a perfectly good man, one who 
was all right, one who never did wrong ? [Replies.] Yes, 
there was one, only one ; it was Jesus, the Son of God. 
He was all good. Sing, "Jesus, who lives above the sky." 

[As far as " Upon a cross of wood." Hymn 2. Pictures.] 

Teacher. Was our heavenly Father pleased with Jesus ? 
[Replies.] Yes, God spoke from heaven and said : " This is 
my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." Since Jesus 
is so good, and God loves goodness, what will God do for 
his dear Son Jesus? [Pause.] What has God done for 
Jesus already ? [Replies.] Say it after me. [They repeat each 
clause.] 



82 HOUKS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

God has raised Jesus — from the dead. 

God has made Jesus higher — than the heavens. 

God has set Jesus at his own right hand — far above all 
the angels and saints in glory. 

God has made Jesus king — and lord over all. 

Sing, " Rejoice, the Lord is king." [Hymn 6.] 

Teacher. Now, tell me how Our Father rewards his dear 
Son Jesus ? [Replies.] Yes, and that is not all. God loves 
Jesus so much that he shows kindness to all his people for 
his sake ; that makes Jesus happy. Tell me, at Christmas, 
when people give you many pretty gifts, are not your father 
and mother happy? [Hands.] Yes; they rejoice in your 
joy. So Jesus rejoices over his people in heaven. God 
brings them to him there. He makes room for them all. 
Our Lord Jesus gives them their golden crowns. How 
happy he must be as they gather round and thank, and 
love, and praise him. He delights to see their joy. 

Say this after me: " Little travellers Zionward." (That 
means all who are going in the way to heaven.) 

Little travellers Zionward, 

Each one entering into rest, 
In the kingdom of your Lord, 

In the mansions of the blest. 
There, to welcome, Jesus waits, 

Gives the crowns his followers win. 
Lift your heads, ye golden gates, 

Let the little travellers in. 

Who are they, whose little feet, 

Pacing life's dark journey through, 
Now have reached that heavenly seat 

They had ever kept in view ? 
u I, from Greenland's frozen land ;" 

" I, from India's sultry plain ;" 
" I, from Afric's barren sand ;" 

"I, from islands of the main.' , 

" All our earthly journey past, 
Every tear and pain gone by, 



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Here, together, met at last, 

At the portal of the sky !" 
Each the welcome " come " awaits, 

Conquerors over death and sin. 
Lift your heads, ye golden gates, 

Let the little travellers in. 

— Edmeston, 

Thus Christ's people keep coming home to him from all 
the towns and countries. This is his great reward. I hope 
you are one of his children. Are you? Sing, "Happy 

land," Hymn 61, [or, "Around the throne," Hymn 60, or Hymn 16, 
whichever they know best.] 

Second Part. Satan, the wicked one. How God punishes 
him. 

Teacher. Children, who is the most wicked person you 
ever heard of? [Replies.] Satan is the wicked one; the 
Bible tells us so; it says he is a liar and a murderer. Some 
people call Satan "the bad man ;" but he is not a man ; he 
is an unseen spirit, as angels are ; but he is a wicked spi- 
rit. (See 1 John 5 : 18, 19 ; 3:12 ; John 8 : 44 ; Ephes. 
2 : 2.) Satan used to be one of the glorious angels in 
heaven ; but he grew proud and set himself against God . 
and he persuaded many others to turn against God with 
him. (See 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6.) Then there was 
war in heaven ; for God let those who loved him fight for 
him, and they cast Satan and all his followers out of hea- 
ven: he fell like a falling star. (See Rev. 12 : 7, etc; Luke 
10 : 18 ; compare Isaiah 14 : 12.) Where did he fall to ? 
God had made ready a place for him, a deep place in the 
outer darkness, a lake of fire, an everlasting punishment, 
where they are tormented in the flame. (See Matt. 25 : 41 ; 
Luke 8 : 31 ; Rev. 20 : 3 ; Jude 6 ; Rev. 20 : 14, 15 ; Luke 
16 : 24.) Why? Why did God throw Satan and his fol- 
lowers into such a place? Because they were so bad. 
"The righteous Lord loveth righteousness," "but the 
wicked his soul hateth ;" " upon the wicked he shall rain 



84 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

snares, fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest; this 
shall be the portion of their cup." (See Ps. 11 : 5-7.) 
Children, never do wrong ; if you set yourself against God, 
and will not mind him, he will say to you at last : " Depart 
from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the 
devil and his angels." [Pause.] 

Have you done wrong ? Are you naughty ? Oh ! turn 
from those bad ways, and make haste. Make haste to ask 
Jesus, our dear Saviour, to forgive and save you. If you 
are his child, he will not let you fall ; his good angels will 
come and carry you to him where he is. (See Luke 16 : 22.) 



xrlg-f0nrl^ S>mwn. 



See Seventeenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns fof the 

Youngest. 

[Explanations and comments.] 

[" Little travellers Zionward," Oriola, p. 186, might be taught here if there 
was time ; so might " Around the throne of God in heaven," Hymn 60.] 



SUBJECT. 

HOLINESS. GOD HATES SIN" AND PUNISHES 
FOR IT. ADAM AND EVE. THE FLOOD. 
SODOM. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL GIRL, A 
RECENT FACT. 

[School opens with a Hymn before Worship, and with worship. Sing 
Hymn 13, after the prayer.] 

Teacher. Repeat Psalm 11 : 7, 5. [Repeated.] "But 

the wicked * his soul hateth," that means, God hates 

wicked people in his very heart. Say this after me : "But 
his soul hates the wicked." [Repeated.] 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 85 

GOD PUNISHES SINNERS. ADAM AND EYE. 

Genesis, chapters 2, 3. 

The very first man that ever lived in this world did some- 
thing wrong. Perhaps you know what it was. If you do, 
tell me all about it. [Replies.] The name of the first man 
was Adam. He lived with Eve, his wife, in the garden of 
Eden, a beautiful place, full of flowers and fruit-trees, and 
watered by sparkling rivers. God had made it for hiro. 
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: " Of 
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat ; but of the 
tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat 
of it : for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt 
surely die." Eve was not to eat of it either; but Satan 
came, like a cunning serpent, and said to her : " Yea, hath 
God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden f ' 
The woman said to the serpent : "We may eat of the fruit 
of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which 
is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye shall not 
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." And the 
serpent said to the woman: "Ye shall not surely die." 
And while he went on talking she stood looking at the for- 
bidden fruit, and wanting it, till, at last, she put out her 
hand and took it, and did eat ; and she gave it to her hus- 
band, and he did eat. Did God care about it ? Oh ! yes, 
They heard his voice in the garden, calling " Adam, Adam ;" 
and they ran and hid themselves among the trees. That 
was of no use. We can not hide from God, He sent them 
away from their sweet home in that lovely garden. He 
turned them out into the fields, and there they had to work 
hard to get their bread. At last they fell sick and died ; 
and all because they had done wrong. God hates what is 
wrong, and he does punish. 



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THE FLOOD. 
Genesis, chapters 6, 7, 8. 

Hundreds of years after that, when the world was full 
of people, God looked down and saw that they were very, 
very wicked. They quarrelled, and fought, and murdered, 
and cheated, and did every thing that is bad. The strong 
were unfair and cruel to the weak. God was grieved and 
displeased. (See Gen. 6 : 5-7, 11.) The wicked world was 
disgusting in his sight, like some dead, rotting thing. (See 
Gen. 6 : 11-13.) And he said, " I will destroy them from 
the face of the earth ;" that is, " I will not have them here ; 
I will not let them live ; I will sweep them away." 

Now, there was among them one man, Noah, who did 
right, and prayed to God, and tried to please him. God 
looked on him with favor. He would not sweep him away 
with the wicked. God spoke to Noah, saying : " Behold I, 
even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy 
all * wherein is the breath of life. Make for thee an ark, 
long, wide and high ; and thou shalt come into the ark, 
thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives, with 
thee ; and beasts, and birds, and food for thee and them/ 
Thus did Noah ; according to all that God commanded him 
so did he. What did Noah do ? [Replies.] I suppose the 
ark looked something like a large house in a great boat ; it 
was made so as to float safely upon water. 

God did not at once send the great waters to drown the 
wicked people. God is so loving. He does not like to 
punish, yet, when it must "be done, he does it; for he hates 
every thing that is bad. But God waited. He waited to 
see whether they would be sorry and leave off their bad 
ways. (See 1 Peter 3 : 20.) He waited a hundred and 
twenty years ; and all the while Noah was having the ark 
made ready ; but no one believed that God would punish 
them ; no one asked to be taken into the ark. At last, 



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Noah went in himself, with his wife and his children, and 
many animals ; and God shut him in. As soon as Noah 
was safe, God sent the rain. It came pouring down from 
the sky ; it would not stop raining. Day after day, night 
after night, for forty days and forty nights it rained ; and 
God brought up the waters of the sea upon the land. Up, 
up the waters came, over the fields, over the roads, in 
through the doors, in through the windows, above the 
roofs, higher than the hills, higher than the mountain-tops ! 
All was under water ! Every body was drowned ! Every 
body except Noah and his family ; they were safe in their 
ark, floating upon the waters. 

At last the storm cleared away a little ; the waters, too, 
were lower. Noah looked out from the ark. Where were 
all the people ? Drowned and gone ; or perhaps, round 
about him, among the broken trees and floating ruins, he 
saw their bodies — more than could be counted — and not 
one of them alive. Why ? Why were they all drowned ? 
Because they were wicked. God hates wickedness. He 
punishes for it. 

Sing, " God rides the roaring winds." [Hymn 5.] 

SODOM. 

Genesis, 19th chapter. 

There was once a man named Lot. He was a good man, 
but he did one very foolish thing. He chose to go and live 
among bad people in a town called Sodom. It was a beau- 
tiful place in the midst of green fields. (See Gen. 13 : 10- 
13.) The people were rich and did not have to work hard. 
They amused themselves, and felt proud, and did just as 
they pleased, without caring whether it was right or wrong. 
(See Ezekiel 16 : 49-50.) Lot married one of these wicked 
women of Sodom. His children learned to be bad like their 
neighbors, and his grown daughters married wicked men 



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of Sodom. The people of Sodom had forgotten God, but 
God had not forgotten them. He saw their wickedness. 
It was grievous to him ; he meant to punish them terribly. 
(See Gen. 18 : 20, etc.) 

But God is kind. He said he would try them once more 
and see what they would do. So he sent two men to take 
a message from him ; but he told them to go into Sodom 
like any other strangers, travelling along, and see how 
the people would treat them. Toward evening these two 
strangers came to the gate of Sodom. Lot was sitting near 
the gate. He was a good man ; his heart was full of kind- 
ness. He saw that they were foreigners ; he knew there 
were no hotels in that town ; he would not let the tired 
strangers stay in the street all night ; so he invited them 
to go home with him and sleep at his house. There he had 
unleavened bread baked for them, and gave them a good 
supper. 

About bed-time they were all startled by a great noise 
in the street. The wicked men of Sodom had gathered in 
a crowd around Lot's house. They hated Lot because he 
was so good. They hated him because he always looked 
so sorry when they did wrong. (See 2 Peter 2 : 6-10.) 
They loved to tease and vex him. They cared nothing for 
two poor foreigners, strangers, who had no friends to take 
their part. They wanted to spite Lot by dragging his vis- 
itors out of his house and abusing them. They thought 
that would be fine fun. So they beat upon the house and 
called aloud: " Bring those men out here to us." 

Lot knew how bad they were. He knew that the men 
would not be safe among them ; so he barred the door and 
took good care of the two strangers. The men of Sodom 
tried to break into the house and kill Lot ; but his visitors 
took care of him, as well as of themselves. They were no 
common men ; they were God's angels. They struck those 
bad men blind, both small and great, so that they tired 



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themselves, feeling about in vain to find the door. At last 
they went away. And the angels said to Lot : " Hast thou 
here any besides ? Sons-in-law, and thy sons, and thy 
daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them 
out of this place ; for we will destroy this place, because the 
cry of them is grown great before the face of the Lord ; 
and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it." And Lot went 
out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his 
daughters ; but they would not come. And when the morn- 
ing arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying : "Arise, 
take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are here, lest 
thou be consumed (burnt up) in the iniquity of the city." 
And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, 
and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his 
two daughters ; the Lord being merciful to him ; and they 
brought him forth, and set him outside of the city ; and 
he said : " Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither 
stay thou in all the plain ; escape to the mountain, lest 
thou be consumed." 

The sun had risen upon the earth ; but a strange thick 
cloud was hanging over Sodom. It gathered ; it hid the sun- 
shine. The moment Lot reached a place of safety, the Lord 
rained fire and blazing sulphur down on Sodom ! The 
houses took fire ; the ground itself took fire ! It burned, 
and heaved, and fell in ! And all the people, oh ! where 
were they ? Sinking down, down, down amidst the fire ! 
This was God's punishment upon them for their wicked- 
ness. God sees every thing. God hates all that is bad. 
God punishes terribly. 

Sing again, " God rides the roaring winds." Hymn 5. 

[Singing.] 



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THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL GIRL. 

A RECENT FACT. 

Only a little while ago, in one of our own towns, there 
*was a very pretty girl, about fourteen years old, living with 
her good mother. Every Sunday she was sent to Sabbath- 
school. One day an acquaintance stopped at her mother's 
house, and said to the old lady : " Let your daughter walk 
always with me to Sunday-school. I will take care of her." 
So it was agreed upon. He called for her regularly, and 
they used to walk to Sunday-school together. One Sunday 
he said to her : " Don't let us go to Sunday-school to-day. 
Come with me another way, and take a pleasant walk ; 
your mother will think you were at Sunday-school." She 
knew that was wrong, but she went with him. After that 
she went away with him every Sunday. She grew more 
and more wicked, till she was so bad that she felt ashamed 
to see her mother. Then she ran away from home. 

God had watched all this. He began to punish her. 
She got sick, and there was no kind mother there to nurse 
her. She lay on a little bed in a large dirty room, all full 
of people ; but they were bad people, who cared nothing 
about her. They kept on laughing, and singing, and danc- 
ing, and disturbing her poor aching head. She was very 
ill ; she could not go away ; and none of them would help 
her. Perhaps she would have died there ; but God, who 
is so kind, sent her some help, and tried her again, to see 
whether she would be a better girl. 

He did it in this way. He sent some kind ladies to the 
next room to take care of a poor dying man. The noise in 
the room where the girl lay disturbed the dying man. So 
the ladies opened the door and begged those bad people to 
keep quiet. They only laughed at them. But, near the 
door, the ladies saw this poor sick girl, lying on her little 



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bed, so young, so thin, so pale, her large eyes so bright 
with fever ; and they felt sorry for her. They went to her, 
and said : " My poor child, what brought you here ?" 
She looked up and answered : " Sin." Yes, it was sin that 
had brought upon her all this sorrow and sickness. The 
ladies told her they would take her away, and be kind to 
her, if she would leave off her bad ways. So she went with 
them. 

They nursed her and made her well ; and were trying to 
find her mother, that they might send her home, and make 
them happy together. But, all of a sudden, she was gone. 
She had run away again. She did not like to be good. 
She loved to be bad. They never could find her again. 

But God knew where she was. Most probably she soon 
fell sick again, and no help came to her. Far from all good 
people, far from her Sunday-school, far from her mother, 
she suffered and died in misery. Many have died so. The 
Bible says : " God is angry with the wicked every day." 
He punished them in old times, and he punishes them now. 
If they do not turn, he will punish them forever. 

God does not like to punish. He wants us all to be good. 
He has sent us this word by his prophets : " Oh ! do not 
this abominable thing that I hate ! " What word does 
God send to us ? " Oh ! do not this abominable thing — 
that I hate l" [They repeat it.] What is the abominable thing 
that God hates ? [Replies.] Sin ; doing wrong is what God 
hates ; and he says to you : " Oh ! do not do it." That 
text is in the Bible ; here in Jeremiah, forty -fourth chap- 
ter, fourth verse. [Place and words are taught by repetition.] 

God speaks, too, in the Bible, to those who have been 
naught}^. He says : " Turn ye, turn ye ; why will ye 
die ? " What does God our Father say to sinners ? [Replies.] 
It is here in Ezekiel, thirty-third chapter, eleventh verse : 
Turn ye — turn ye from your evil ways ; for why will ye 



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die ? [Repeated.] That has been put into verse. We will 
say and sing it. Say after me : , 

Sinners, turn ; — why will ye die ? 
God, — your Father, — asks you — Why ? 

[The couplet is sung by lining till it is known. Tedious monotony can be 
avoided by singing it all through the tune. Tune, Benevento.] 



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See Eighteenth Lesson, and Thirty-fifth Session. 



SUBJECT. 

HOLINESS. CHRIST JESUS SUFFERED FOR OUR 

SINS. 

[School opens with Hymn 13.] 

[The Teacher reads aloud Isaiah 52 : 13, and 53 : 3-9. Prayer.] 
Teacher. Repeat Psalm 11 : 7, 5. The righteous Lord 
loveth righteousness ; but the wicked his soul hateth. 
[Repeated.] Say this : God is pleased with good people. He 
rewards them. — God is angry with bad people. — He pun- 
ishes them. [Repeated by sentences.] 

[The Teacher, having pictures already arranged, sings as she shows them :] 

" Jesus who lives above the sky, came down to be a man 
and die. [The Babe of Bethlehem.] And in the Bible we may 

see, how Very good he used to be. [Jesus among the doctors, and 

the return to Nazareth.] He went about and was so kind, to 
cure poor people who were blind ; and many who were sick 
and lame, he pitied them and did the same. [Christ healing 



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the sick.] And more than this ; he taught them too the 

things that God would have US do. [Christ's Sermon on the Mount.] 

And was so gentle and so mild, he would have listened to 

a child. [Christ blessing the children. ] Jesus who lives above 

the sky, came down to be a man and die ; and in the Bible 
we may see how very good he used to be." Was our 
heavenly Father pleased with Jesus ? [Replies.] Yes, God 
spoke from heaven and said : " This is my beloved Son, in 
whom I am well pleased." Did the Father reward Jesus 
for his goodness ? [Replies.] Yes, indeed. What is our 

Father doing for JeSUS ? [Thirty-third Session.] 

[Sing Hymn 6, or sing, " I think when I read that sweet story of old," 
Hymn 57 — if they know it. They sing standing.] 

Teacher, returning to the pictures. When Jesus was 
here among men, though he was so very good, he had trouble 
and sorrow. [The Babe of Bethlehem.] When he was a baby, 
where did they lay him ? [Replies.] Say after me : 

How much better I am tended 

Than the Son of God could be, 
When from heaven he descended, 

And became a child like me ! 
Soft and easy is my pillow ; 

Hard and coarse my Saviour lay, 
When his cradle was a manger, 

And his softest bed was hay. 

When Jesus grew up and was a man, where did he live ? 
Had he a fine house and plenty of every thing ? [Replies.] 
Oh ! no ; Jesus was a poor man. He had no home. He 
had not a place of his own to lie down in at night. Say 
this after me : Foxes have holes, — and the birds of the air 
have nests, — but Jesus had not — where to lay his head. 

[Jesus healing, Jesus teaching, Jesus blessing children.] 

See, Jesus was so good and kind. Did every body love 
him ? [Replies.] No ; some loved him ; but many hated 
him because he told them of their bad ways. They hated 
him, and wished that he was dead ! [Gethsemane. ] One 



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night Jesus was in a shady garden praying. Some friends 
were near him ; but Judas — one of his companions — had 
gone away to the men who hated him. This false Judas 
asked them what they would pay him to show them where 
Jesus was ; and they promised to give him money, for they 
wanted to take Jesus away in the dark still night, and kill 
him before morning. So Judas led them along toward the 
garden. Jesus knew all ; he knew what they would do ; 
he was very sorrowful, even unto death ; and as he knelt 
in prayer, bowing down, falling upon the ground, he cried : 
" my Father ! if it be possible, let this cup pass from 
me ; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. Abba, 
Father ; all things are possible unto thee ; take away this 
cup from me ; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be 
done." And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, 
strengthening him. And being in an agony, he prayed 
more earnestly : and his sweat was as it were great drops 
of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up 
from prayer and was come to his friends, he found them 
sleeping for sorrow. And he said to Peter : " What ! could 
ye not watch with me one hour ? " See Matt. 26 : 36-46 ; 
Mark 14 : 32-42 ; Luke 22 : 39-46. 

Judas and his men were already near. Their loud foot- 
steps and their angry voices sounded through the garden. 
They had heavy sticks in their hands, and sharp, flashing 
swords, and lanterns and flaming torches. Jesus went for- 
ward to meet them. Judas came straight to him and said, 
" Master, Master," and kissed him. Then they came and 
laid hands on Jesus, and took him as if he had been a thief! 
They tied his hands with cords ! They hurried him away 
to the judge, and all his friends ran off and left him. 
[Picture of Jesus bound.] Sing, " JeSUS who lives," [as far as "to 
a child "—Hymn 2.] 

The judges were sitting in the court-room. Jesus was 
brought in and stood before them. These judges were 



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Jewish priests. They were the very men who hated him 
and wished that he was dead. They meant to have him 
killed, but they dared not murder him themselves. They 
liked to be thought good. So they tried to show that the. 
holy Jesus was wicked and deserved to die ! They hired 
men to stand up there in court and tell false stories against 
him. But Jesus answered nothing, for all could see that 
they were telling lies ; Jesus never did wrong. At last the 
high-priest turned to him and asked : "Art thou the Christ, 
the son of the blessed God ?" Jesus said : u I am, and ye 
shall see me coming in the clouds of heaven." Then they 
cried out against him, and said he ought to die ; and the 
priests passed into another room to talk together, and see 
how they could have him killed. While they were gone, 
the rude crowd in the court-room gathered around the 
meek and patient Jesus. They mocked him ; they spit 
upon him ; the very servants struck him with sticks and 
slapped him with their hands! Sing, " I want to be like 

JeSUS," [Hymn 11.] 

The Jewish priests agreed to take Jesus to Pilate, the 
Governor. They wanted Pilate to order out Roman soldiers 
and kill Jesus for them. By this time the dark night had 
passed away. When they reached Pilate's house it was 
early morning. The cruel priests and the angry crowd 
stood in the street outside ; but they sent Jesus in to the 
Governor. [Jesus before Pilate— picture.] Pilate came out and 
asked what he had done. Again they told false stories 
against Jesus ; but Pilate could not believe them. The 
more he talked with him, the more sure he felt that he had 
not done wrong. He went out, therefore, and said : "I 
find no fault in this man. I will chastise him and let him 
go." But they cried out: " Crucify him, crucify him." 
Now to crucify is to nail a man upon a cross of wood like 
this : [Picture of cross.] Pilate said : " Why ? What evil has 



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he done ? I find no fault in him." But they cried out the 
more : " Crucify him, crucify him." 
Pilate sent Jesus to the soldier's hall, and ordered them 
. to beat him with whips. And oh ! such whips ! The blood 
ran down from his back and shoulders when they struck 
him! They did more — they mocked and insulted him. 
[Jesus crowned with thorns.] They dressed him in an old purple 
robe, and put a crown of thorns around his head, and a 
reed in his right hand. Then they knelt before him, pre- 
tended to honor him, and called him " King of the Jews." 
All this they did to make sport of him, and vex him ; but 
he bore it all in silence. Then they came nearer and spit 
upon him, and snatched the reed from his hand, and struck 
him on the head, yes, they drove those sharp thorns into 
his aching head. 

Then said Pilate to the angry crowd in the street : " I 
will bring him out to you, that you may know that I find 
no fault in him." Jesus came out in front of Pilate's house, 
wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, pale, 
trembling, bleeding from that cruel beating. [Picture.] Pi- 
late pointed to him and said : " Behold the man." Per- 
haps he hoped that they would pity him and let him go. 
But no ; they cried out more and more : " Crucify him, 
crucify him !" Pilate himself was frightened, they were 
so many and so very furious, and he said : " Take him, 
then, and crucify him." 

Pilate's soldiers were sent to crucify the innocent Jesus. 
They brought a heavy cross of wood like this, [picture,] and 
made him drag it through the city streets and up the hill 
Calvary. He dragged it till his strength was almost gone ; 
they would not help him with it even then ; they laid hold 
of a stranger who was passing by, and forced him to bear 
the cross after Jesus. 

It was broad daylight when they reached the hill, and 
crowds had gathered round to see him die. Two other men 



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were to die with him there ; both of these men were thieves ; 
Jesus was righteous ; yet he was to be killed as they were. 
Why? 

The soldiers took his clothes away from him and kept 
them for themselves. The cross was lying on the ground. 
A hole had been dug near it. They laid our blessed Jesus 
on the cross and stretched his arms along it, and spread 
out his hands, and oh ! they nailed him fast ; they drove 
those horrid nails through his hands, through his feet ! 
Then said Jesus : " Father, forgive them, for they know 
not what they do." 'They raised the cross, they set it in 
that deep hole, and planted it upright like a tree ; and, all 
the while, there hung the Holy One, " hanging by those 
dreadful nails to the accursed tree." 

They left him hanging there in the glaring sunshine. 
They left him hanging there in pain and misery, not able 
to turn or move, till fever came on, and thirst, and faint- 
ness, and wretchedness ! (See Psalm 22.) Did I say they 
left him ? No, they did not leave him ; they stood and 
stared at him, and mocked him ; they shook their heads at 
him, and talked against him ; they came around him like 
dogs, or like strong, angry bulls, till God himself darkened 
the day and hid him from their sight. He hung there in 
the darkness ; and oh ! his heart was dark and sorrowful ; 
he cried out : " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken 
me." At last he said, " I thirst," and, when some one had 
touched his dying lips with a wet sponge, he said again : 
"It is finished ; Father, into thy hands I commend my 
spirit." And he cried with a loud voice, and bowed his 
head and died. He died upon the cross, between two 
thieves ! The thieves were still alive ; the soldiers came 
to see if Jesus was really dead so soon ; to make it sure 
one of the soldiers raised his iron-pointed spear and pushed 
it in through Jesus' side into his very heart ; and there 
came out blood and water. He was dead. Why did he 



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die ? Why did the Father let him die so ? What for, when 
he was so good ? [Pause.] What for ? God tells us what 
Jesus died for, here in the Bible, [l Cor. 15 : 3. Christ died for 
our sins.] Say that. [Repeated once.] But why did he have 
so much pain and sorrow ? God tells us why, here, 
[l Peter 3 : 18.] Say it. " Christ has suffered for our sins — the 
just for the unjust." Jesus Christ is the just and good 
one. We are the unjust bad ones. He suffered all that 
pain and grief for us, for our sins. But he was whipped ! 
Who should be whipped ? [Replies.] The naughty ones are 
whipped, and not the good ones — but Jesus was whipped 
that we might not be punished. God says so here. [Isaiah 
53 : 5, 6.] I read it to you this morning. God says that the 
punishment for our wickedness was upon Jesus ; that his 
stripes and bruises make us well and happy. Say this af- 
ter me : U A11 we — like sheep — have gone astray — we have 
turned — every one — to his own way ; — and the Lord has 
laid on him — the iniquity of us all." Iniquity means sin, 
badness. God has laid on Jesus the sins of us all ; that 
was why he was so badly treated ; his pains and sorrows 
are what we deserve. 

Repeat : " This is why — he came to be a man and die : 
— He knew how wicked — men have been ; — He knew — 
that God must punish sin, — so, out of pity, — Jesus said — 
he'd bear the punishment instead. Now God will pardon 
— those who pray — and hate their sins — and turn away," 
— (those who turn away from their sins to do right, God 
forgives them ;) " but if we sin — and do not care, — God 
will not listen to our prayer." God will not listen to our 
prayer, if we sin and do not care ; but if we do care, and 
are sorry, and won't do it any more, and ask God to for- 
give us for Jesus' sake, then he will listen to our prayer. 



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See Nineteenth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 

Youngest. 



C|irfg-mnf^ S^ssfon:, 



SUBJECT. 

LOVING -KINDNESS. LORD'S PRAYER, FOURTH 
PETITION. ELIJAH AND THE RAVENS. THE 
SICK MINISTER. MANNA, THE BREAD FROM 
HEAVEN. OUR DAILY BREAD. 

[School opens with an appropriate hymn and with prayer.] 

Teacher. What is the first thing in the Lord's prayer ? 
" Our Father." Sing, " I have a Father in the promised 

land." [Hymn 1.] 

What is the next part ? " Who art in heaven." The 
next ? " Hallowed be thy name." Sing, " Holy, holy, holy 

One." [Hymn 13.] 

What comes next in the Lord's prayer ? " Thy kingdom 
come." What then ? " Thy will be done in earth as it is 
in heaven." After that? "Give us this day our daily 
dread." I will tell you about a man to whom God sent 
bread every day. 

ELIJAH AND THE RAVENS. 

Elijah was a good man, a prophet, one of God's messen- 
gers. God sent him with a message to the wicked king 
Ahab. Ahab and the queen were angry and wanted to kill 
Elijah. God told Elijah to go far away and hide himself. 
So he went into a wild, lonely place among the trees, and 
sat down by a little brook of clear running water. He was 
safe there ; and when he was thirsty he could drink water 



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from the brook. Evening came on. He was hungry. There 
was nothing there to eat. But God had not forgotten him. 
Elijah saw some black birds flying that way. They were 
ravens. He watched them. They were carrying some- 
thing in their beaks. They came near the place where he 
was hid, and looked about, but did not see Elijah ; so they 
put the pieces out of their beaks and hid them among the 
grass and leaves, and hopped about awhile and then flew 
away to their perch. Elijah went to the spot where the 
birds had hid what they carried in their beaks, and drew 
aside the grass to see what they had put there ; and what 
do you think it was ? [Replies.] It was bread and flesh ! 
So Elijah took it and thanked God, who had sent him such 
a supper ; and he ate it and lay down and slept. Next 
morning God sent the birds again with bread and meat. 
God sent them every morning and every evening. Don't 
you think God was very kind to Elijah ? [Hands.] Sing, 
" When I look up to yonder sky." [Lesson 1.] Who is that ? 
[Replies.] Who saw and cared for Elijah ? [Replies.] God 
did something very like this in our own country not long 
ago. 

THE SICK MINISTER. 

A RECENT FACT. 

A good man, a preacher of God's word, was staying in a 
lonely house among the trees of the old forest. He got 
sick, and those with him thought he would die. However, 
his disease passed off and he began to get better, but he 
was very weak. He felt hungry, and wanted to eat and 
gain strength ; but there was no food there that was fit for 
him to eat. When he went to the table with the family, 
the sight and smell of the victuals made him feel sick, and 
he could not possibly swallow a mouthful of them. The 
people in the house did not know what to do for him ; it 
seemed as if he must pine away and starve to death. He 



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went and told his heavenly Father about it ; and our Father 
sent him something he could eat. What was it ? And how 
did God send it to him ? In this way. One morning, as he 
was leaning feebly against the doorway, to feel the fresh 
air from the green forest blow softly over his forehead, a 
little playful cat came and rubbed herself against his legs, 
and laid something down at his feet, and ran away. He 
looked to see what pussy had dropped there. It was a 
plump little bird which she had just caught and killed. He 
took it up and cooked it for himself. It tasted good, and 
he felt better when he had eaten it. You may be sure that 
he did not forget to thank God for it. 

But what was his surprise when playful pussy came 
again next morning with another bird. That was not all. 
She brought them to him again, and again, and again ; and 
when he patted her head and stroked her fur, she would 
purr and seem so happy, and go walking around his feet 
and rubbing herself against them ! The little cat fed the 
man of God till his strength and health came back. But 
when he was quite well and could eat any thing on the 
table, she left off bringing birds ; and this is the strangest 
part of the story ; but it is all true. The minister says that 
he never could think why she left off coming ; indeed, he 
could not see why she ever came at all ; only he was sure 
that the same God who sent ravens to feed Elijah had sent 
the little cat to bring him food. 

Sing, u God is in heaven." [Hymn 54. The first and the last 
verse only.] 

MANNA, THE BREAD FROM HEAYEN. 

God can feed many people at once. There was once a 
great company of travellers, hundreds and thousands of 
them, men, women, and children. They had been slaves 
in Egypt, but God had forced their masters to let them go. 
God had brought them out of Egypt, and was leading them 



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to a beautiful land where they might live and be happy. 
They were all travelling to that promised land. But it was 
a long way off, and they had nothing to eat They had 
eaten up all the bread they brought with them. They be- 
gan to cry. They thought they must starve in that wild 
place, for there were only stones and bushes there — nothing 
fit to eat. Do you suppose that God, who had brought 
them there, was going to let them starve ? [Replies.] No, 
they might have known that. 

Those who trusted God prayed earnestly to him. Early 
in the morning, when the dew went up, they saw some- 
thing left upon the ground, all round about them. It was 
not snow ; it was not hoar frost, though it looked like that. 
They went out and felt it. It was small, round, yellowish 
grains, myriads of them, like little seeds. They were spread 
thickly over the ground, everywhere, like a light snow ; 
but this was not cold and white like snow ; perhaps it was 
more like corn-meal. They gathered it up in cups and pots 
and tasted it. It tasted good, like fresh butter and honey. 
They made it into cakes, and found it better than bread. 
They called it manna. 

There was plenty of it for them all ; and every one made 
haste to get some, for when the sun grew hot all that was 
left upon the ground melted away. But next morning the 
manna fell again ; and next morning the manna fell again ; 
and every day God gave them manna. It was their daily 
bread. It was sent to them by Our Father who is in heaven. 
He is so good and kind. 

Don't you wish you could run out every morning as soon 
as you are up and dressed, and find something good to eat 
lying on the ground ? "Would not you thank God, and 
think him very kind ? [Hands.] Well, tell me, when you 
got up this morning, and came down stairs, did you have 
any breakfast ? [Hands.] Yes, there it was on the table, 
ready for you ; and you ate it. But who put it there ? 



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Who gave you a father and a mother ? "Who made them 
love and feed you ? [Replies.] Yes, it is God who gave you 
breakfast, and he will give you dinner and supper too, I 
suppose, before you go to bed. And to-morrow God will 
give you breakfast and dinner and supper ; and next day, 
and next day too, I suppose. God gives you bread every 
day, and more than bread. He is hind to you, as he was 
to the Israelites. Say this after me : 

Our kind heavenly Father, 

By whom we all are fed, 
Thanks to thee for home and friends, 

And thanks for daily bread. 

[Taught by repeating.] 

I should like you to say that every time you go to break- 
fast or dinner or supper, before you begin to eat. If your 
father does not thank God aloud for you all, ask him to let 

you Say your verse. What is it ? [They repeat it. Then they 
rise and sing the Doxology, " Praise God from whom all blessings flow." 
Hymn 20.] 



See Twentieth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 

Youngest. 



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SUBJECT. 

LOVING-KINDNESS. 1. GOD FEEDS ALL THAT 
LIVES. 2. GOD GIVES US ALL THAT WE 
EAT OR DRINK. PICTURE LESSON ABOUT 
FOOD. WATER. THE BREAD OF LIFE. 

[Singing. Matthew 6 : 26, 31, 32, 33 is read aloud. Prayer.] 

1. Teacher. " Give us this day our daily bread. " You 



104 HOUKS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

say that ; God does it. How many people say, "Give us 
this day our daily bread," and God does it for them all. 
How many, many people he feeds ! 

He feeds the beasts, too, and the birds. 

Have you a canary in a cage ? Who has ? [Hands.] How 
do you keep it alive ? What do you give it? [Replies.] How 
often ? [Replies.] Yes, and when the canary has eaten all 
he wants, he shakes his yellow feathers, and stretches out 
his wings, and hops up on to his perch, and sings you a 
merry song, just as if he wanted to say : " Thank you, thank 
you." Doesn't he ? tHands.] 

But the wild birds : who feeds them ? Why don't they 
starve ? [Replies.] God hangs berries for them upon the 
bushes, and seeds upon the weeds ; and even worms (those 
troublesome brown and green caterpillars that spoil our 
plants) are food for the little wild birds ! When the mother 
bird sees one of these crawling, she is so glad. She turns 
her head to one side and looks at it, then she pounces 
down upon it, she picks it up in her beak, and away she 
flies to her soft nest. The little ones in the nest open their 
great mouths and call to her, [imitating the sound ;] she drops 
the worm into their throats, and off she flies for another ; 
so they get their daily bread. God feeds all the birds, and 
all the beasts, and all the bees, and the butterflies, and 
every thing. 

For God is very kind and good, 
And gives e'en little flies their food. 

Say that after me. [Repeated till known.] Say this, too : 
Ps. 145 : 16. Thou openest thine hand— and satisfiest 
the desire — of every living thing. [Repeated till known.] 
Stand up and sing : 

Let us, with a joyful mind, 
Praise the Lord, for he is kind. 



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[Sung several times over.] 
Say this after me : 

All we eat, and drink, and wear, 
Proves our heavenly Father's care. 

[Repeated till known.] 

2. God is as good to you and me as he is to the birds. 
What do you eat at breakfast ? "What did you have this 

morning ? [Replies. The Teacher then shows, in regard to each article 
named, that it comes from some plant, or from some animal ; and that 
the plant or the animal was made by God and provided for our use.] 
What do yOU eat at dinner ? [Similar remarks on the articles 
named.] At Supper ? [Similar remarks.] Can you think of 
any thing else good to eat ? [Similar remarks.] Here are 
some pictures about things to eat ; and some verses which 
we will learn. 

[See Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, Lesson Twenty-first. Picture 
Lesson about Food. Enlarged copies, colored, and shown to the whole School 
at once, would be very valuable.] 

Teacher. What things to eat do these pictures show ? 
[Replies.] Say it after me. Grain for bread, beasts for meat, 
vegetables, sugar. Who made all these things for us ? 
God. Then God is very kind, I think, to make all things 
we eat or drink. 

What things to drink are told of in these pictures? 
[Replies.] Milk, coffee, tea. There is a better drink than 
any of these. What drink do you want when you are hot 
and thirsty ? [Replies.] Yes, water, good cold water. That 
is the best drink. How do you get water ? Where do you 
find it? [Replies.] Who makes it come there? [Replies.] 
Say after me : 

God gives us water in dew, 
God gives us water in rain, 
God gives us water in springs, 
God gives us water in brooks, 
God gives us water in rivers, 
God gives us water in wells, 



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God gives us water in reservoirs, 
God gives us water in hydrants, 
God gives us plenty' of water ! 

TEACHER. [Singing, to the tune of Lillie Dale.] 

As pure as heaven is the water given ; 

'Tis forever fresh and new ; 
Distilled in the sky, it comes from on high, 

In the shower and the gentle dew. 
Oh ! a goodly thing is the cooling spring, 

'Mong the rocks where the moss doth grow ; 
There's health in the tide, and there's music beside, 
In the brooklet's bounding flow. 
water ! bright water ! 
Pure, precious, free ! 
Yes, 'tis water bright, in its silver light, 
And a crystal cup for me ! 



[Speaking.] 



Then God is very kind, I think, 
To make all things we eat or drink. 



[Couplet repeated till known.] Let us thank and praise God for 

this. [Tune, Nuremburg.] 

Let us, with a joyful mind, 
Praise the Lord, for he is kind ; 
For his mercies shall endure, 
Ever faithful, ever sure. 
All we eat, or drink, or wear, 
Proves our heavenly Father's care. 
For his mercies, etc. 

[Sung by lining, and followed by the Doxology.] 

Now tell me what you are to ask for every day. " Give 
us this day our daily bread." There is something better 
than bread to ask for. Can bread keep you alive always ? 
[Replies.] No, but the Lord Jesus can. Jesus says : "I 
am the Bread of Life." Those who have him for their 
Lord and Saviour live happily forever and ever. Those 
who are not his children die the second death. When you 
ask for daily bread, ask too that Jesus may be yours and 
you his ; so that you may live forever. 



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See Twenty-first Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest. 

[The Picture Lesson about Food may be said in School as a dialogue, the 
boys reciting the descriptions, the girls the explanations, and afterward 
changing the parts. Or one scholar may hold the picture and describe, and 
the gallery explain ; afterward changing the parts. This affords variety and 
gives pleasure.] 



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SUBJECT. 

LOVING -KINDNESS. 1. GOD GIVES US OTJK 
CLOTHING. 2. GOD CLOTHES THE EAKTH 
AND ALL ITS LIVING CREATURES. MATT. 
6:25 TO END. 3. PICTURE LESSON ABOUT 
CLOTHING. THE SNOWBIRD'S SONG. 
[School opens with singing. Matt. 6 : 25 to end is read. Prayer.] 

1. Teacher: 

Let us, with a joyful mind, 
Praise the Lord, for he is kind. 

[Sung as in Forty-first Session — two couplets and chorus.] 

All we eat, and drink, and wear, 
Proves our heavenly Father's care. 

All we wear ! Does God give us all our clothes, too ? 
Let us see. What have you got on now ? [Replies.] What 
is your coat made of ? [Replies.] What was the cloth made 
of ? [Replies.] How did they get any wool ? [Replies.] Who 
made the sheep and their wool ? [Replies.] If God had not 
made any wool, could you have had that coat ? [Replies.] 

What is your dress made of ? [Replies.] Of fine cotton ? 



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Where did the cotton come from ? [Replies.] Who made 
the cotton-plant grow ? [Replies.] If he had not made such 

plants, COuld you have had that dreSS ? [Replies. The Teacher 
proceeds, in this way, to show that each article comes from some plant or 
some animal created by God, and that we owe all to him.] Rise and 

sing again : " Let us, with a joyful mind." [Sung with the Dox- 

ology, " Praise God from whom," etc.] 

2. Teacher. Who paid for your clothes ? [Replies.] Who 
sewed them ? [Replies.] When these are worn out, will 
you ever get any more ? [Hands.] You smile. You are 
not afraid, I see. You feel sure that clothes will come for 
you when you need them. Why ? Because your father 
and mother will not let you go without clothes. Are you 
sure ? Do you feel safe ? Can you trust them ? [nands.] 
But when you grow up, and have no father to buy clothes 
for you, and no mother to make you any, what will you 
do ? How will you get clothes then ? [Replies.] Yes, you 
must work and get them for yourself. But even then you 
must not feel troubled about it, nor afraid ; for your heaven- 
ly Father will be with you, and he will give you clothes. 
All your life long, look to your heavenly Father for food 
and clothes, as now you look to your father at home for 
them. Do not be anxious about it, ever. Do not keep 
thinking : " What shall I have to eat ? " " What shall I have 
to wear ? " Trust God ; he knows what you want. Ask 
him for it in Jesus' name. He is so very kind and good. 
He gives us all we wear. [Flowers.] Do you see these flow- 
ers ? [Hands.] How pretty they are ! Who put these beau- 
tiful colors on them ? [Replies.] Last winter the bush they 
grew on was all brown and bare. Spring came ; the little 
leaves peeped out ; soon the bare bush was clothed with 
green. Who dresses the naked earth and the bare boughs 
in green ? [Replies.] Yes, and then God brought out the 
flowers amidst the green, .and made the bushes look so 
pretty ! If God so clothes the grass and the bushes, do 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 109 

not you think he will give you clothes that are pretty 
enough for you ? Say this after me : 

God clothes the plants and makes them beautiful. 

God clothes the beasts and birds, and makes them warm. 

How much more will he clothe his children ! 

[Repeated till known.] 

3. Here is a little poem about a snowbird. I will read 
it to you. 

THE SNOWBIRD'S SONG. 

The ground was all covered with snow one day, 
And two little sisters were busy at play, 
When a snowbird was sitting close by, on a tree, 
And merrily singing his chick-a-dee-dee, 
Chick-a-dee-dee, chick-a-dee-dee, 
And merrily singing his chick-a-dee-dee. 

He had not been singing that tune very long, 
Ere Emily heard him, so loud was his song : 
" sister ! look out of the window," said she, 
" Here's a dear little bird singing chick-a-dee-dee." 
Chick-a-dee-dee, etc. 

" mother ! do get him some stockings and shoes, 
Andla nice little frock, and a hat if he choose ; 
I wish he'd come into the parlor and see 
How warm we would make him, poor chick-a-dee-dee." 
Chick-a-dee-dee, etc. 

" There is One, my dear child, though I can not tell who, 
Has clothed me already, and warm enough, too. 
Good morning ! Oh ! who are so happy as we ? " 
And away he went, singing his cliick-a-dee-dee. 

Chick-a-dee-dee, etc. _ F c WooDWORTH< 

Now let us thank God for taking care of us, and giving 
us food, and water, and clothes. We will sing, " When I 
look up," etc., [Hymn in First Lesson,] and, " Praise God from 
whom all blessings flow." Stand up. [Singing.] 

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110 HOUES WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

PICTURE LESSOJS" ABOUT CLOTHING. 

Pictuke No. 1. — Sheep and Lambs. 

Say this after me. [See Twenty-second Lesson.] 

Des. Here are little lambs and sheep ; 
How they run and skip and leap ! 
Exp. God made sheep with nice thick wool, 
To clothe them when the weather's cool ; 
Men cut it off, when long enough, 
To make us all our woollen stuff. 

What is woollen stuff? [Replies.] What have you that is 
made of wool ? [Replies.] God clothes some animals with 
fur to keep them warm ; and he lets us take it to warm us 
too, in winter. God is kind to the beasts ; and he is kinder 
still to us. 



Picture 2. — Flax-Plants. 



Repeat : 



Des. On this card are flax-plants, too, 

See their flowers of soft light blue ! 
Exp. Small, strong threads run up the stem, 

All our linen's made from them. 

What have you that is made of linen ? [Replies.] God 
made the flax-plants grow, or you could not have had it. 
God gave it to you. 

Picture 3. — Cotton -Plants. 
Repeat : 

Des. And here the cotton-plant is shown. 
Exp. The cotton is this fleecy down ; 

Warm quilts, fine work, cheap calico, 
Are made of this. God makes it grow. 

Can you think of any thing that is made of cotton ? 
[Replies.] How did they get cotton to make it of? [Replies.] 
Who made it grow ? [Replies.] 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. Ill 

Picture 4. — Silkworms and Cocoons. 
Repeat : 

Des. See this worm upon the leaves ; 

Threads of silk it spins and weaves ; 

Some balls of silk are lying nigh, 

And yonder is a butterfly. 
Exp. The little worms made those silk balls ; 

From such come all silk frocks and shawls. 

All the ribbons come from silk too. Almost all cater- 
pillars can make silk. They draw it out of their mouths. 
When you walk under trees in summer, do you not some- 
times see little worms hanging from the branches, and 
swinging about at the end of a slender thread ? [Hands.] 
Those threads are silk. God makes the caterpillars able to 
spin them so that they can drop from place to place, or can 
fasten themselves where they want to stay and cover them- 
selves up. Some of them, like these silkworms, can roll 
silk all around them, and make balls or cocoons like these. 
The little birds can not get at them when they are inside 
of their silk cocoons. They are safe there. But God lets 
us take their silk from them and use it for ourselves. God 
is kind even to little worms. He is still more kind to us. 
Now, all together, say this after me : 

All things for clothing or for food 
God made for us. Oh ! God is good. 

[The couplet is repeated till known. Then the School goes once more 
through the picture lesson without interruptions, and, if time remains, learns 
Psalm 145 : 9.] 



See Twenty-second Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 

Youngest. 



112 HOUES WITH THE YOUNGEST. 



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SUBJECT. 

JOHN 6TH CHAPTER. CHRIST FEEDING THE 
MULTITUDE. CHRIST THE BREAD OP LIFE. 

[Singing. John 11 is read aloud. Verses 25, 26 are repeated by the School 
several times. Prayer.] 

[The pictures about Food are in sight. The Picture Lesson on Pood is first 
recited ; then the Teacher returns to First Picture, Harvesting.] 

Teacher. What is this growing here ? 
Children. 

It may be barley, rye, or wheat, 
Of which is made the bread we eat. 

Teacher. Who gives us daily bread, then? [Replies.] 
Why does God give us bread ? Suppose you had none. 
There was a child lost in the woods. No one came to him, 
for the place was lonely. What became of him ? [Replies.] 
He died. Why did he die ? Because he had nothing to 
eat. Let us say our Thanksgiving verse. 

Children. 

Our kind heavenly Father, 

By whom we all are fed, 
Thanks to thee for home and friend3, 

And thanks for daily bread. 

Teacher. Yes, thank God for daily bread, for it gives us 
life and strength ! 

But God gives us something better than bread. Could 
bread keep us alive always ? [Replies.] No ; we must all 
die and be buried. But the Lord Jesus can raise us up 
alive again, as he raised Lazarus ; and he can keep us alive 
always, forever and ever ! Jesus is better than bread. He 
is the best thing that God has given to us. Why ? [Replies.] 



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Because he can make us live forever. Sing, "Let us with 

a joyful mind." [Sung standing, as in Forty-first Session.] 

Now this. Repeat : 

But one gift above the rest 
Is the noblest and the best ; 
His own Son the Father gives ! 
Jesus died ! and Jesus lives ! 

[Repeated once, and sung by lining.] 

CHRIST FEEDING THE MULTITUDE. 
John 6 : 1-14. 

[Picture of Jesus preaching on the Mount.] One day JeSUS had 
been teaching the people, out in the country, so. He saw 
that they were hungry. He said to Philip: "Where can 
we buy bread for all these people ?" Philip answered, that 
twenty -five dollars would not buy bread enough to give 
every one of them a little piece. Andrew said : " There is 
a boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes, 
but what are they among so many ?" For there were about 
five thousand men there, besides the women and children. 
Jesus said: "Make them sit down." So the people sat 
down on the grass in long rows. And Jesus took the loaves, 
and when he had given thanks he broke them up, and the 
disciples carried the pieces round, and let every person take 
as much as he wanted. When they had all eaten and had 
enough, Jesus said : " Gather up what is left, that nothing 
be lost." And they gathered up pieces of bread and fish, 
twelve baskets full. How could there be so much when 
there were only five loaves and two fishes at first, and more 
than five thousand persons had been eating? [Replies.] 
Jesus, the Son of God, made it so ; he fed them all, and 
gave them life and strength. 
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114 HOUES WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

THE BREAD OF LIFE. 

John 6 : 22-40. 

Next day these same people came to Jesus. They wanted 
him to give them bread again. Jesus told them, Labor not 
for such food ; it is soon gone, and you are hungry again ; 
but work for the food which I shall give you, food that lasts 
and keeps people alive forever. They said : " What shall 
we do?" Jesus answered: "Believe on me." They said, 
Do something for us, then. Our fathers in the wilderness 
had manna every day ; " He gave them bread from heaven 
to eat." Then said Jesus : "Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
. . . my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven ; 
for the bread of God is he who cometh down from heaven, 
and giveth life to the world." Then said they to him : 
" Lord, evermore give us this bread." And Jesus said to 
them : "Iam the bread of life. He that cometh to me 

AND HE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME SHALL 
AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST 

day." (Compare John 4 : 13-15, 25, 26, and John 
7 : 37-39.) 

Say after me these other words of Jesus: "I am the 

BREAD OF LIFE. — He THAT BELIEVETH IN ME — HATH EVER- 
LASTING LIFE." [Repeated twice.] 

Sing, " Jesus, who lives above the sky," etc. [Hymn 2.] 

[Picture of the Raising of Lazarus.] This man Lazarus Was 

dead, and in his grave here. The Lord Jesus said: "La- 
zarus, come forth." Did Lazarus hear him? [Replies.] 
Yes, Lazarus heard, and came out of his grave. You and 
I will die and be put into graves. Every body dies once. 
But the Lord Jesus will come in the clouds of heaven, 
and will call to us as he called to Lazarus. You and I 
will hear him call. All that are in the graves will hear 
his voice, and will come out ; and his people will go with 



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him to live forever in the happy land. But what about 
those who would not come to Jesus, and did not believe 
in him ? They can not come where he is. (See John 
8 : 21, etc. ; Luke 16 : 26.) What will become of them? 
[Replies.] They will be thrown into a lake of fire, and 
there they will begin to die again, a second death, an 
everlasting punishment. (See Rev. 20 : 14, 15 ; Matt. 25 : 
46.) children! you must go to the Lord Jesus, and 
believe in him, or you will die that second death. It was 
to save us from that, that he came down. Go, ask him to 
save you ; believe in him ; be his child, and mind him. Be 
Sure you do. [The Teacher might here lead them, in prayer, to the 
Saviour.] 

[Hymn 23 repeated, and sung by lining.] 

Dismission. 



See Twenty-third Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 

Youngest. 



Jfarfg-Befrjcnt^ Simian. 

SUBJECT. 

JOHIyT 6. SUICIDE BY STARVATION. THE 
APOSTLES' BELIEF. HOW* TO BE SAVED. 

[Singing. Reading Exodus 16 : 2, 3, 4, 14, 15, 21. Prayer.] 

Teacher. Sing, "Jesus, who lives above the sky. [Sung 

sitting, the Teacher showing the pictures, to win and fix attention.] Do 

you remember the text about Jesus, which we learned last 



116 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

Sunday? Jesus said: "I am the" — [They finish the text.] 
Whom was he talking to when he said that? [Replies.] 

TEACHER. [Pointing to the picture of Jesus preaching on the Mount.] 
The people had been listening many hours. They were 
tired and hungry. The Lord Jesus made them sit down on 
the grass ; and broke up five loaves of bread and two little 
fishes, and gave to them ; and they all ate as much as they 
wanted, and left pieces enough to fill twelve baskets. Yet 
there were more than five thousand persons there — and all 
fed with five loaves and two fishes ! Then he sent them 
home. Next day they came to him again, not to see and 
hear him, but to get more bread and flesh. They began to 
tell him about the manna which God used to send down 
from heaven for their fathers. Jesus said to them : u Verily, 
verily, I say unto you, he that believeth in me hath ever- 
lasting life ; I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat 
manna in the wilderness, and are dead ; this is the bread 
which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat there- 
of, and not die. I am the living bread, which came down 
from heaven ; if any man eat of this bread, he shall live 
forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I 
will give for the life of the world." 

Sing, " 'Twas to save our souls from dying." [Hymn 23, 
sung standing.] Do you remember the text in 1 Peter 3:18? 
[Replies.] Say it with me, there is more of it. Christ has 
suffered for sins — the just for the unjust — that he might 
bring us to God — "being put to death in the flesh ! [Repeated 
two or three times.] How was Christ put to death in the flesh ? 

[Replies.] Yes ; 

Such a dreadful death he died ! 
He was hung up and crucified. 

Sing that to the end. [Sung sitting.] Now, say last Sun- 
day's text in John 6 : 47, 48. Jesus said: u He that he- 
lieveth on me" — [They finish it.] But what if we do not 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 117 

believe on Jesus — what will become of us ? [Replies.] Those 
who will not eat or drink, die ; and just as surely, those 
who will not believe in Jesus, die the second death. 

THE INSANE PATIENT. 

I did once know a young lady who would not take food. 
She would not eat, and so she died. Of course she was 
insane. Insane means crazy. I knew her well. She was 
a very lovely girl, about sixteen years old; black eyes, 
black hair, rosy cheeks, the very picture of health ; but she 
went crazy. She did not scream and rave; no, but her 
head ached and she would not eat. She felt angry with 
her friends when they brought her bread or meat ; she 
was insane. She grew paler, and thinner, and weaker. 
She lay upon her bed and pined away. It was no use to 
force her to take food ; forcing her only made her worse. 
Her mother sat and watched her color fading and her eyes 
growing dim. " my daughter ! " she said, " do take this 
food ; it is to keep you alive." But no, she would not. 
She grew so weak that her father had to lift her. "My 
child," he said, " you must take food. Come, I command 
you ; eat this at once." But no, she would not. The doc- 
tor came and said : " Miss Julia, indeed you will die if you 
do not eat. Eat this little piece for me ; if you will, I can 
save you yet. What! you will not? Then I can do 
nothing more for you." She shook her head and pushed 
his hand away. She died. Why did she die ? [Replies.] 
Because she would not eat. There was bread enough in 
her father's house, but then she did not eat it, so she died. 
And many persons die the second death because they will 
not come to the Lord Jesus that they may have life. (See 
John 5 : 40.) Repeat after me what is written here, in the 
first epistle of John, 5th chapter, 11th and 12th verses. 

1 John 5 : 11, 12. This is the record — that God has 



118 HOUKS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

given to us eternal life — and this life is in his Son. — He 
that hath the Son — hath life ; — and he that hath not the 
Son of God — hath not life. [Repeated.] 

Sing again, u 'Twas to save our souls from dying." 

[Sung standing — Hymn 23."! 

THE APOSTLES' BELIEF. 

(See John 6 : 41-69.) Many of those Jews who came 
to Jesus for something to eat, did not believe that he was 
the Son of God or that he could give them eternal life. 
They murmured, as children often grumble when they do 
not get just what they asked for. They said : " How can 
he say he came down from heaven ? We know his father 
and mother." Who was the mother of Jesus ? [Replies.] 
Mary. Yes, and Joseph was her husband, but he was not 
the father of Jesus. (See Luke 1 : 30-35.) Whose son is 
Jesus ? [Replies.] Jesus is the Son of God. He came down 
from heaven when he was made Mary's baby. (See John 
16 : 27-30.) But the Jews did not believe it. In the 
meeting-house, soon after, Jesus was teaching, and he said : 
" I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If 
any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever : and the 
bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the 
life of the world." The Jews therefore began to talk to 
each other and say : " How can this be ? " And many who 
used to go about with Jesus and were called his disciples 
grumbled too, and said : " This is a hard saying. Who 
can hear it ? " And though Jesus explained it to them, 
(see verse 63,) they did not believe, (see verse 64 ;) and 
from that time many of his disciples went back, and walked 
no more with him. Then said Jesus to the twelve : " Will 
ye also go away ? " Who were the twelve ? [Replies.] The 
twelve Apostles ; do not you remember ? " Peter and 
Andrew his brother ; James and John" — and all the rest. 



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[See Fourteenth Session.] They were Christ's chosen friends, 
(see John 15 : 15, 16 ;) and he said to them : "Will you 
also go away ? " Then Simon Peter answered him : " Lord, 
to whom shall we go ? Thou hast the words of eternal life. 
And we believe, and are sure that thou art that Christ, the 
Son of the living God." Say that over with me. Jesus 
said to the Apostles — will ye also go away ? — Peter an- 
swered him — Lord, to whom shall we go ? — Thou hast the 
words of eternal life — and we believe and are sure — that 
thou art that Christ — the Son of the living God. [Repeated.] 

HOW TO BE SATED. 

So, children, if you want eternal life, you must not go 
away from Jesus Christ. You must come to Mm and Re- 
lieve every word Tie has said. He is the one who saves ; he 
has given his flesh for the life of the world ; he has shed 
his blood for the forgiveness of sins ; ask him to save you ; 
ask God to forgive you for his sake. Trust him and give 
him all the praise. Be his children ; listen to his words 
and to his Spirit, and do just as they tell you to do. And 
he will give you everlasting life. 



See Twenty-fourth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for 



the Youngest. 



THE APOSTLES' BELIEF. 



[This commences by repeating The Apostles, as in the Fourteenth Session.] 

Jesus said to the twelve : " Will ye also go aicay f " How 
did they answer him t It is written in John 6 : 68, 69. 

John 6 : 68. " Lord, to whom shall we go ? — Thou hast 
the words — of eternal life." 



120 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

And what did the Apostles believe t Q.9th verse. 

"And we believe — and are sure — that thou art that Christ 
— the Son of the living God." 

To whom then must we go for the words of eternal life ? 

We must go to the Lord Jesus Christ. 

And what are we to believe about him t 

Believe that Jesus is the Lord and Saviour, — the Son of 
God. 

And what then shall we do ? 

Trust Jesus — and obey him — as the Apostles did. 



SUBJECT. 

DRINKS. PURE MILK FOR BABES. "THE SIEN 
CERE MILK OF THE WORD." CHRISTIAN" 
GROWTH. 

[Singing. Matt. 7 : 24-27 is read. Prayer.] 

TEACHER. [Showing the picture of a cow and a calf.] What does 
this little calf have to eat and drink ? [Replies.] Milk. 
Nothing but milk. All young animals drink milk, and so 
do little children. Repeat after me : 

Thank you, pretty cow that made 
Pleasant milk to soak my bread ; 
Every morn and every night, 
Pure and fresh, and sweet and white. 

What does "pure" mean? Pure means clean, not 
mixed with any thing bad. [Verse repeated again.] Say the 
lines that belong to this picture : 

And here the noble cow we see, 
She gives good milk for you and me ; 
From milk comes butter too, and cheese, 
God made the cow to give us these. 



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Then whom should you thank for the milk ? Thank God. 
Yes, " thank you, pretty cow ;" but " thank God " still 
more. Sing, " Let us, with a joyful mind, praise the Lord." 

[See Forty-first Session. Sung standing.] 

Young things drink milk. What does the baby live on ? 
[Replies.] Do you think the baby will ever be as large as 
you are ? [Replies.] Yes, the baby will grow if it takes its 
good pure milk ; it will grow up and be as tall as I am, or 
taller. The milk makes it grow. 

Can your baby at home show how high it is ? " How 

high ? So high, SO high ! " [Using the common nursery gesture of 
raising the arms and stretching upward.] You may do that with 

me ; but we must do it in good order, and exactly together. 
[Practised a few times.] Now say this : " Little baby — weak 
and small — how can you grow strong — and tall ? — Can you 
ever be a man ? — Drink your milk — and then you can. — 
Up, baby ! — try, try. — How high? — So high ; — drink, drink, 
— and try, try ; — so high — so high." You see I say " try, 
try," as well as " drink, drink," for the baby must move as 
well as feed, if it is to grow. 

Milk to grow by. That reminds me of a text ; say it 
after me : 

1 Peter 2:2. As new-born babes— desire the sincere 
milk of the word — that ye may grow thereby. [Taught.] 

Sincere milk ! What is that ? It means here pure milk, 
clean milk, milk not mixed.* But " the sincere milk of the 
word ! " What is the milk of the word ? That means 
God's word — the word printed here in the Bible. [Holding 
one open.] This is the sincere milk of the word. It is not 
milk, but it is like milk, because it is good for little ones, 
to make them grow better ; and you should want to hear 
it, just as a little new baby wants its milk. Say the text 

* See Webster's large Dictionary for definitions of sincere, and examples. 
The etymology is said to be " sine cera," without wax ; as if applied at first 
to pure honey. 

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122 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

again. [Repeated two or three times.] God's pure word is in the 
Bible ; ministers and teachers and parents tell it to you. 
You are to take it in, as the little baby takes in its milk. 
If baby takes its pure milk, it will grow to be a man ; and 
if you take in God's pure word, you will grow to oe a per- 
fect man, like Christ Jesus. (See Ephesians 4 : 11-24 ; 
Col. 1 : 28 ; Heb. 12 : 23.) Christians in this world are 
all beginners, like new-born babes ; we all want the pure 
word of God, that we may grow thereby. What is the text ? 

[They say it alone.] Listen, do not sing. [The Teacher sings the 
Growing Song to them, using gesture with the first verse, but not with the 
second. The children then rise and sing the first verse several times by 
lining. See Twenty-fifth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the Youngest.] 

Here is another text ; repeat it as I read. In James 1 : 22. 
But be ye doers of the word — and not hearers only. [Taught.] 
(See verses 21-23, etc.) That means that we must do what 
we are taught. Listening to it will not make us Christians, 
if we do not do it. Hear and do ; then you will grow to 
be perfect men, like the Lord Jesus. So now you may 
say the second verse of the Growing Song. 

Fellow-Christians, — weak and low, — God's pure word — 
can make us grow. — Let us hear — and heed — the word ; 
— soon we shall be like — our Lord. — Up, brothers — (broth- 
ers and sisters too, all of us, let us try to be Christians in- 
deed, and to be always growing more like Jesus) — up, 
brothers — try, try ; — aim high, aim high ; — read, listen — 
try, try ; — aim high, aim high. [After one or two repetitions this 
may be sung by lining ; then both verses may be sung standing.] 

One word more. Suppose some one should take away 
the oaltfs milk / Poor baby ! it would not grow ; I think 
it would die. Would you let any one come and take away 
the good pure milk from your baby at home ? [Replies.] No, 
I know you would not. That would be too cruel, and too 
wicked ! 

There are men who take away the pure word of God from 
the school children. Is that right ? No, indeed. That is 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 123 

worse than taking the baby's milk from it. You must have 
the word of God, that you may grow like to Jesus and fit 
for heaven. Will you let them take the Bible from you ? 
[Replies.] No, indeed ; we won't give up the Bible. Will 
you let them take the Bible from the other children ? 
[Replies.] No, indeed ; we won't give up the Bible. Will 
you let them take the Bibles out of the day-schools ? 
[Replies.] No, indeed ; we won't give up the Bible. Will 
you let them take the Bibles out of the Sunday-schools ? 
[Replies.] No, indeed ; we won't give up the Bible. 

We will have the Bible read and taught in the 

SCHOOLS. 

We won't give up the Bible. 

Say that after me. [Repeated more than once.] I will teach 
you to sing about that. [Part of Hymn 58 is then introduced.] 



Jfif&if)' £mian. 



See Twenty-fifth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest. 

[In practising, gestures might be used with both verses, but the tone and 
time should differ. Parts of Hymn 58 are taught and sung by lining, and 
anecdotes are introduced of the Waldenses and their sayings, upon which the 
hymn is founded, and of other steadfast martyrs.] 



124 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

SUBJECT. 

DRIBTKS. STATER FOR THE LARGE AND STRONG. 
THE ROBIN'S MORNING SONG. FRESH WA- 
TER CONSTANTLY SUPPLIED. THE ROCK 
IN HOREB. " THAT ROCK "WAS CHRIST." 
THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

[Singing. Psalm 104 : 1, 10-15, read aloud. Prayer.] 

TEACHER. [Showing the picture of the cow and calf.] "When the 

calf grows big like this cow, what will he eat ? [Replies.] 
Grass. And what will he drink then ? [Replies.] Water. 
To be sure ; all grown-up animals drink water. Did you 
ever watch the cows when the dew lies thick on the mead- 
ows ? How they stretch out their long tongues and twist 
them round the wet grass and swallow it down ! When 
the sun is up and the fields are dry, have you not seen the 
cows all straying along one way ? Which way ? The way 
toward the water. 

In the valley, by the mill, 
To the gently-flowing rill, 
Will you come when all is still ? 
Will you come ? will you come ? 

" Yes, yes," say the cows ; and that is where you will be 
sure to find them. When you go out walking in the shade 
of the willows, to look for flowers along the edge of the brook, 
do not you always find the cows there before you ? And 
sometimes they are standing in the water, with its cool rip- 
ples dancing and sparkling around their backs and necks ! 
Don't you remember the day when you saw the cows stand- 
ing in the water ? [Hands.] Suppose we should fill their 
water-troughs with whisky, or rum, or beer; would the 
cows and horses drink it? [Replies.] No, indeed; they 
know better ; what they want is water. 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 125 

What do the birds drink ? [Replies.] Grown birds drink 
water. Have you not seen them dipping in their little beaks 
and then holding up their heads to make the nice cool water 

run down their throats ? [Picture, cameo, or carving of birds perched 

on a vase and drinking.] How the birds do love water ! Mr. 
Hood's book says that the robins are all teetotalers. What 
is a teetotaler ? One who drinks nothing but water. Hear 
what he says about it : 

I asked a sweet robin, one morning in May, 
Who sung in the apple-tree over the way, 
What it was he was singing so sweetly about, 
For I'd tried a long while, and I could not find out : 
11 Why, I'm sure," he replied, " you can not guess wrong, 
Don't you know I am singing a temperance song ? 
Teetotal, oh ! that's the first word of my lay ; 
And then don't you see how I twitter away ? 
'Tis because I have just dipped my beak in the spring, 
And brushed the fair face of the lake with my wing. 
Cold water ! cold water ! yes, that is my song, 
And I love to keep singing it all the day long I" 

Robin had taken his bath and had his drink ; he felt 
strong and fresh ; he sang, not words, of course, but joy ! 
When robin was a baby-bird in the nest, all weak and 
naked, he could not get water. The mother birds have to 
soak all the hard food for their little ones. Birds have a 
craw in them, just below the throat, a sort of bag, wet, like 
the inside of your mouth. They put things in there to 
soak, then bring them up and feed the baby-birds. But 
when the birds grow strong and can fly around, and hop 
about and pick up their own food, they all drink water. 

Sops and milk are for oaoies ; water is for grown folks ; 

THE LARGE AND STRONG DRINK WATER. 
Say that after me. [Repeated once or twice.] 

Did you ever see a bird perch on the edge of a barrel or 

a jug to drink strong liquor out of it ? Never ! Birds 

know better ; it would kill them. Water is what God made 

for us to drink. Sing, "0 water!" etc. [Song2G. The 

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126 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

chorus only, sung standing, several times. For variety, the boys and girls 
wight alternate or respond.] 

Teacher. Water is what God made for us to drink. 
Where does it come from ? [Replies and conversation.] Say this 
after me : 

Distilled in the sky, 
It comes from on high, 
In the shower and the gentle dew. 

[Repeated.] 

But the dew-drops and the showers fall on all sorts of 
ground ; in some the water grows muddy and slimy, in 
some it gets salt and bitter ; then our kind heavenly Father 
draws it up again and distills it in the air, and sends it down 
clean and sweet and fit to drink ; because he means us to 
drink it. Say this : 

As pure as heaven 

Is the water given, 
'Tis forever fresh and new ; 

Distilled in the sky, 

It comes from on high, 
In the shower and the gentle dew. 

[Sung by lining, with the chorus.] 

Some places are all sand. Some places are all stones and 
hard rocks. There the rain sinks in, or runs off, and soon 
it is all gone ; there is no water there. Plants can not grow ; 
birds fly over but will not light ; beasts keep away ; men 
do not live there. Such dry places are called deserts. But 
sometimes men must pass through deserts to reach some 
better country. They take water with them, tied up in 
leather bags. Water is heavy. They can not carry much. 
Sometimes before they have crossed the desert the water in 
their bags is all gone. What can they do then ? They try 
to hurry on and find a spring. There is none. They grow 
very tired and thirsty. There is nothing to drink ! Their 
throats are dry ; their eyes are red and bloodshot ; their 
tongues hang out ; their heads are dizzy ; their strength is 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 127 

gone ; they stumble along like blind men, they fall down, 
they try to creep a little farther, they are too weak ; they 
cry for water, water ; there is no water for them ! They 
faint ; they die ! Thank God that we live where there is 
plenty of water ! 

Sing the Water Song, 26. [Beginning at the second verse.] 
[Picture of Israelites in the Wilderness.] God's people Once were 

travelling through a desert. They had no bread. How 
did God give them bread ? [Replies.] They had no water. 
Did God give them water ? How ? I will tell you about 
that. 

The Israelites were faint and weary ; they were crying 
for water. Then our kind heavenly Father said to their 
leader Moses : " Go to the rock in Mount Horeb. I will 
stand upon it before you. Strike the rock with a rod. I 
will bring water from it — water enough for all, that all may 
drink and live !" Moses took the rod of God in his hand, 
and went to the rock in Mount Horeb. The thirsty people 
came crowding around it. Moses lifted the rod and struck 
the rock. It opened, and out poured the bright, cool, 
springing water ! Oh ! what joy ! 

Now you tell me how God gave drink to his thirsty, 

fainting people in the desert. [Replies aided and encouraged.] 

Say four words after me — four words printed here in the 
Bible, in 1 Corinthians 10 : 4. "That Rock was Christ." 

[Repeated.] 1 Cor. 10 : 4 : That rock was Christ. [Repeated 

till known.] "Who is Christ ? [Replies.] Christ is our Lord 
Jesus ; he is Jesus Christ. He is the Son of God. He is 
a man, but God is in him. But what does the Bible say 
in 1 Cor. 10 : 4? [Repeated.] That rock was Christ! That 
rock which gave out the springing water was stone, part of 
the mountain. Christ Jesus is not a rock of stone ; he is 
the living Son of God ; but he is like that rock in Horeb. 
How is Christ like that rock ? [Pause.] Christ is like that 
rock because he gives the very thing we need. That rock 



128 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

gave out water to the thirsty people, that was just what 
they wanted ; Christ Jesus gives the Holy Spirit, and that 
is just what we must have. We can not live right here, 
nor get to heaven without the Spirit of Christ. It is the 
Spirit that makes alive. John 6 : 63. 

[Here the Teacher asks the questions of Catechism 26 in Texts and Hymns 
for the Youngest, and after hearing the children's own replies, dictates the 
answers. So repeated as to be thoroughly understood, not taught. Memo- 
rized in the next Session. The Teacher, in closing, throws in a word or two 
of practical directions, adapted to the views and state of her hearers.] 

Recite, " Praise God from whom all blessings flow." 
[Recited.] "Holy Ghost," means the Holy Spirit ; " Son," 
is our Lord Jesus Christ. He sends us the Spirit from the 
Father. Rise and sing. [Doxoiogy.] 



See Twenty-sixth Lesson in Texts and Hymns for the 
Youngest. 

THE SHOWER. 
An Exercise. 

[The following lesson and exercise, or the exercise alone, may be intro- 
duced here, or at any time when the children seem to droop. It is always 
refreshing, when properly conducted, and is a great favorite with them ; but 
it can be used only on two conditions ; one that they only smile and do not 
laugh out ; the other that when the Teacher stops they stop. If they fail in 
either, she ceases the exercise at once, and refuses to try them again in it 
that day.] 

Who gives us fresh water? [Replies.] God made the 
earth and the waters. He lifted the dry ground up and 
made hills and mountains ; the waters run down and make 
rivers and lakes and oceans. The ocean water is not fit to 
drink ; it is full of salt and bitterness. God draws it up 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 129 

again into the sky, leaving the salt and bitterness behind ; 
and then he sends it down all pure and fresh for us to 
drink. Down, down it comes in dew ; down, down it 
comes in rain and snow and hail. Down, down it runs in 
merry streams and in wide rolling rivers. Down, down it 
sinks, deep under ground, among the sand and stones, till 
it leaps up to us in springs and wells. Oh ! the good God 
gives us plenty of pure, fresh water ! Sing, " As pure as 

heaven," etc. [Verse and chorus sung.] 

Come, I will show you how the water is " distilled in 
the sky," and made " forever fresh and new." You may 
move your hands as I do, if you will do it gently, and only 
smile, and not be noisy ; because this is the holy Sabbath day. 

[The Teacher sits down and lays her hands in her lap, spreading out the fin- 
gers. The scholars do the same. They imitate and repeat throughout.] 

TEACHER. [Looking down intently at her hands.] When the Sun 

shines on the seas and the wet earth — [Beginning to move the 
fingers] — little water-bubbles, — little water-bubbles, — water- 
bubbles — [Slowly raising the hands, fingers still moving] — begin to 
arise — begin to arise — rise — rise — rise — [Hands as high as the 
head, waving gently to and fro] — and float about in the air — float 
— float — float — [Hands drawn gently toward each other so that the ends 
of the fingers touch, waving with a wider sweep] — and come together 
in clouds — clouds — clouds floating — floating — floating — 

floating — clouds floating — [Suddenly striking the fingers of one hand 

between those of the other] — till they reach a cold wind and are 

drawn together — [Finger-tips hanging downwards, spread apart, as if 

sprinkling] — and form drops — drops — drops— drops — [Hands 
lowered little by little, finger-tips downward, till the fingers touch the lap.] 
Down come the drops — drops — drops— drops — drops of 
ra i n — dropping — dropping — rain dropping — [ The finger-tips 
striking the lap, at first slowly and softly, but with increasing velocity and 
force ; the effect being precisely the sound of a shower] — rain — rain — 
rain — shower — shower — shower— shower — shower — etc. — 
[The Teacher stops suddenly, and sees that all the children do the same.] 

So God gives us pure fresh water. 



130 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 



OFFERINGS. 



[A Lesson to introduce the practice of taking a weekly collection for benev- 
olent purposes. It can be referred to again, whenever the box is opened and 
its contents poured out.] 

THE ALABASTER BOX. 

[Singing.] Read Matthew 26 : 6-13. [Prayer.] Sing, 
"Alas ! and did my Saviour bleed." [Hymn — .] You have 
heard of Martha and Mary, and their brother Lazarus. 
"What did the Lord Jesus do for Lazarus ? [Replies.] Yes, 
he called him out of his grave. [Picture.] Mary loved Jesus 
before. Now she loved him more than ever. One evening 
Jesus was invited out to a supper. Lazarus was one of 
those who sat at table with him. Martha was waiting on 
them. And Mary — how did Mary show her love ? Mary 
had a beautiful white box, an alabaster box, full of a very 
precious, sweet perfume. It was worth at least thirty dol- 
lars. I suppose it was the most precious of her treasures. 
Mary brought her alabaster box, and came behind Jesus 
as he sat at table. She broke open the .box ; she poured 
all the precious perfume upon the head of Jesus ; it was so 
fine that it made no wet or grease ; it all passed off in fra- 
grance into the air ; the whole house was filled with the 
sweet smell. Jesus was pleased. Mary had brought a 
costly offering. She thought nothing too good for him. 
Some one at table said : " Why is this waste ?" Jesus an- 
swered : " Why do you trouble her ? She has done a good 
work. She has done what she could. Verily, I say unto 
you, wherever in all the world they preach of me, they shall 
tell also of this that she has done." And it is so. To-day, 
so long after, here, so far away, I come and tell you what 
Mary did from love to Jesus. She gave him her most pre- 



A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL. 131 

cious treasure ; she poured it all out to please him ; and he 
was pleased. How can we please Jesus? Have you any 
treasures ? [Hands.] Could you use them for Jesus ? 

[Hands.] How ? [Replies and conversation.] Sing, "I think 

when I read that sweet story of old." [Hymn — .] 

When Mary broke that handsome box, when she poured 
out that costly perfume — thirty dollars 7 worth at once ! — 
upon the head of Jesus, what did the people think ? They 
thought that Jesus must be somebody very great! that 
Jesus must be somebody very good ! Mary honored him 
before them. We can honor him too. We can tell people 
how great and good he is. How can we honor Jesus ? 
[Replies.] When all the house was filled with that sweet 
smell, it gave Jesus pleasure. We too can give him pleas- 
ure, greater pleasure. Jesus is pleased when people love 
him ; Jesus is pleased when sinners are sorry, and put 
their trust in him, and turn to God. " There is joy in 
heaven over one sinner that repenteth." Can not you per- 
suade people to be Christians ? That is one way to please 
Jesus. What is one way to please Jesus ? [Replies.] Will 
you try ? [Hands.] Well, I hope you will ; but you can 
not go far yet ; you are too little. When you are grown, 
I hope you will go where they have not heard of Jesus, and 
tell them about him, that they may be saved. 

There are so many who know nothing about our Saviour. 
Even here in our country, out among the wilds, there are 
children who never went to church or Sabbath-school, and 
never saw a Bible ; yes, and grown people who care noth- 
ing about God. [The Teacher can probably find pictures and facts in 
Sunday-school papers, magazines, letters, etc., to illustrate the state of these 
destitute neighborhoods.] 

Now there are men who are ready to go to these wild 
places, and tell the people about the Saviour, and give them 
schools and Bibles. But while they arc doing this, some 
one must pay for what they eat and wear, and for their 



132 HOURS WITH THE YOUNGEST. 

travelling, and for the books. I wonder if we could not 
help to do that. Could we not bring our money, to send 
men and books to tell the Western people about our Saviour ? 
I think that that would please him. That would be pour- 
ing out a little of our treasures to honor Jesus. Would 

you like to do it ? [See " Far out upon the prairie "—Golden Chain, 
p. 20 ; or, " Take, take our treasure " — Hymn — ; or sing, " I want to be 
like Jesus " — Hymn — .] 

Did you ever hear of the heathen people who worship 

before an idol like this ? [Showing them one, or a picture. Here 
the Teacher goes into more or less detail, according to circumstances.] 

Our Lord Jesus is pleased when any of his people go to 
these poor heathen and show them how to be saved. And 
he is pleased with those who help to send them. Will you 
bring some of your money to help send men and Bibles to 
the heathen ? [Hands.] Well, I will tell what I would like 
to do. I would like to bring a pretty white box here, an 
Alabaster Box, if I can find one, and get it filled with your 
treasure — with the money you will bring for Jesus. W r e 
can put some in every Sunday, and when it is full, we will 
break the box open, as Mary did, and we will pour it out 
to please our Saviour. He will be pleased if we bring it 
because we love him. Then when we have poured it out, 
we will send it to the missionaries, and tell them to go on 
preaching about Jesus, and that will honor him. Shall we 

do SO ? [Hands.] 

[The Teacher explains all the details of the plan, and tries to enlist the 
cordial cooperation of all. " Take, take our treasure " — Hymn —can tben 
be sung by lining, or repeated. When the School knows it, it is well some- 
times to let them sing it during the taking up of the collection, and always on 
the days of the outpouring of the treasure from the full box.] 

[The last part of the original course, including "Sessions" on Loving- 
kindness, Faithfulness, and Christian Obligations, Repentance, Faith, etc., 
etc., will appear in another volume, entitled, The Second Year in Infant 
School. The Child's Manual, Texts and Hymns for the Youngest, which 
follows here, contains the leading subject-matter of both the parts.] 



TEXTS AND HYMNS 



FOR THE 



YOUNGEST. 



A BOOK TO LEARN OE SING FROM AT HOME OK 
IN SUNDAY-SCHOOL. 

ARRANGED IN 

FIFTY-TWO LITTLE LESSONS. 



THESE LESSONS ARE ILLUSTRATED BY ANECDOTES, ETC., 
IN " A YEAR IN THE INFANT SCHOOL." 

BY . 

MAR,Y HAEVEY GILL. 



NEW-YORK: 

ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH, 110 BROADWAY, 

Corner of Ninth Street. 

1864. 



Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by 
MARY HARVEY GILL, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the 
Southern District of New- York. 



JOHN A. GRAY & GREEN, 

PRINTERS, STEREOTYPERS, AND BINDERS, 

16 & 18 Jacob St., N. Y. 



TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS. 



The following lessons form a course of instruction about 
the Lord our God. They are designed to be committed 
to memory, after having been explained and illustrated. 
A whole lesson can be studied by most children of the age 
of eight years or upwards ; but younger learners should be 
taught one, two, or three texts, and the hymn, or part of it. 

Explanations, illustrations, anecdotes, etc., may be 
found in " A Year in the Infant School," a manual for 
teachers, corresponding, topic by topic, with the first 
twenty-six lessons in Texts and Hymns, etc. The last 
twenty-six lessons are illustrated in a similar way in " The 
Second Year in Infant School," soon to be published. 
These two works contain the whole of the infant school 
course. They belong to a series entitled, "Hours with 
the Youngest.' 7 

Infant-school teachers who use them as a manual 
would do well to supply each of their scholars with a copy 
of " Texts and Hymns for the Youngest," that they may 
learn at home, week by week, the appropriate texts and 
hymns. This plan will tend to secure a more rapid ad- 
vance in the course, a more general and accurate use of 
the words of hymns in singing, and, above all, cooperation 
in effort and prayer with the parents and friends at home. 

In Infant or Introductory Departments, arranged in 
classes, Texts and Hymns is for the use of the pupils, and 
A Year in the Infant-School for an Aid to the Superin- 
tendent and the class-teachers. M. H. G. 



TEXTS AND HYMNS 

FOR 

THE YOUNGEST 



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We pray to the Lord God. He is our Heavenly Father. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

Our Father, — who art in heaven, — hallowed be thy name ; 
-. — thy kingdom come ; — thy will be done — on earth as it is 
in heaven. Give us — this day — our daily bread ; — and for- 
give us our trespasses — as we forgive those — who trespass 
against us ; — and lead us — not into temptation ; — but deliv- 
er us from evil. — For thine is the kingdom, — and the power, 
— and the glory, — for ever and ever. — Amen. 

Hymn 1. — "I have a Father in the promised land." 
Tune, Sabbath-School Hosanna, p. 67; p. 4 of Sabbath- 
School Bell, No. 1 ; Oriola, pp. 86-7. 

I have a Father in the promised land, 
I have a Father in the promised land ; 

My Father calls me, I must go, 
To meet him in the promised land. 
I'll away, I'll away to the promised land, 
I'll away, I'll away to the promised land ; 

My Father calls me, I must go 
To meet him in the promised land. 



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I have a Saviour in the promised land, 
I have a Saviour in the promised land ; 

My Saviour calls me, I must go, 
To meet him in the promised land. 
I'll away, I'll away to the promised land, 
I'll away, I'll away to the promised land ; 

My Saviour calls me, I must go, 
To meet him in the promised land. 

I hope to meet you in the promised land, 
I hope to meet you in the promised land ; 

At Jesus' feet, a joyful band, 
We'll praise him in the promised land. 
I'll away, I'll away to the promised land, 
I'll away, I'll away to the promised land; 

Our Father calls us, we must go, 
To meet him in the promised land. 

Catechism 1. 

When we pray, whom do we speak to ? 

We pray to our Father in heaven. 

Who is our Father in heaven ? 

The Lord our God. He is our heavenly Father. 

How many Gods are there ? 

" There is one God ; and there is none other but he." 

Where are those words printed ? 

In Mark 12th chapter, 3 2d verse. 

Repeat that text. 

Mark 12 : 32. There is one God; and there is none 
other but he. 

Repeat the first verse in the Bible. 

Genesis 1:1. In the beginning — God created — the hea- 
ven and the earth. 

In the beginning who was there? 

In the beginning God was there. 

In the beginning what did God do $ 

God made every thing. 



FOR THE YOUXGEST. 5 

Docs God care for the things that he has made ? 
Our heavenly Father takes care of us all. 
Verse. — Tune, Old Hundred; or, U A Poor Wayfaring 
Man of Grief," in Ditson's Wreath of School Songs, p. 84. 

When I look up to yonder sky, 
So fair, so pure, so wondrous high, 

I think of Oxe I can not see, 

But One who sees and cares for me. 



"For Jesus' Sake" God hears our prayers and helps us. 

Catechism 2. 

Repeat your Evening Prayer. 

(Set to music, Sabbath-School Hosanna, p. 92.) 

And now I lay me down to sleep, 
I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; 
If I should die before I wake, 
I pray the Lord my soul to take. 
Father, do this for Jesus' sake. 

" For Jesus'* sake." Who is Jesus ? 
Jesus is God's own Son. 
Is Jesus a man ? 

" Jesus who lives above the sky, 
Came down to be a man and die." 

Where is Jesus ? 

In heaven. 

Why do we say u for Jesus'* sake" ? 

God loves his Son Jesus. 



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Jesus is one of us, and loves us. 
God is good to us for Jesus' sake. 
Repeat the words of Jesus printed in John 16 : 23. 
John 16: 23. Whatever ye shall ask the Father — in 
my name — he will give it you. 
Whom did Jesus say that to ! 
To his people. 
Does he say it to us ? 
Yes, if we are his children. 

Hymn 2.— Tune, " Bonny Doom' ' 

Jesus, who lives above the sky, 
Came down to be a man and die ; 
And in the Bible we may see 
How very good he used to be. 

He went about and was so kind 
To cure poor people who were blind, 
And many who- were sick and lame, 
He pitied them and did the same. 

And what is more, he taught them too, 
The things that God would have us do ; 
And was so gentle and so mild, 
He would have listened to a child. 

Then such a dreadful death he died ! 
He was hung up and crucified ! 
And those kind hands that did such good, 
Were nailed upon a cross of wood. 

He died. He rose. In heaven he lives ! 
And God for Jesus' sake forgives. 
He died for us ; and this is why 
He came to be a man and die, 

He knew how wicked men have been ; 
He knew that God must punish sin ; 



FOR THE YOUNGEST. 

So, out of pity, Jesus said 

He'd bear the punishment instead. 

Now God will pardon those who pray, 
And hate their sins and turn away ; 
But if we sin and do not care, 
God will not listen to our prayer. 



Cfjirir l^mon. 

The Bible is the Word of God. 

Catechism 3. 

God knows every thing. If we speak to him, will he an- 
swer us and tell us ? 

God's words are in the Bible. 

The Holy Spirit, and preachers and teachers, tell us what 
God says. 

Which part of the Bible was written in old times before 
the Lord Jesus came ? 

The Old Testament. 

Which part of the Bible was written after the Lord Jesus 
came t 

The New Testament. 

Repeat part of 2 Timothy 3 : 16. 

2 Timothy 3 : 16. All Scripture is given by inspiration 
of God. 

Hymn 3. 8s and 7s. 
When my teacher reads the Bible, 

That is God's own holy word ; 
And each message that she brings us 

Is a message from the Lord. 



TEXTS AND HYMNS 

Oh ! then, I will never trifle, 
I will listen ; I will say : 
" Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth, 
Speak, thy servant will obey." 

— Original. 



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God gives us life, and he keeps us alive.. 

Catechism 4. 

God can do every thing. Can God make things alive ? 

Yes. The Father hath life in himself. John 5 : 26. 

How did God make the first man alive ? Repeat Genesis 
2:1. 

Genesis 2:1. God breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life. 

Have you the breath of life ? 

Yes. We have had the breath of life ever since we were 
born. 

Who gives you breath ? 

God. He giveth to all men — life, and breath, and all 
things. Acts 11 : 25. 

Who coidd stop your breath ? Repeat part of Daniel 
5:23. 

Daniel 5 : 23. God, in whose hand thy breath is, and 
whose are all thy ways. 

Hymn 4. — The first part of " A Life on the Ocean Wave," 
slightly varied, makes a good tune for it. 

Little gentle breath, 

Coming and going away, 
Who keeps you coming, coming, 

By night as well as by day ? 



To be spoken 



FOR THE YOUNGEST. 

Little busy heart, 

Beating, beating away, 

Who keeps you beating, beating, 
By night as well as by day ? 



God moves each busy heart, 
God sends each gentle breath, 

God watches us all night, all day, 
And keeps us safe from death. 

— Original. 

PRAYER FOR THE BODY. 

(See Peep of Day. Lesson 1.) 

God ! my little body keep, 
Both when I wake and when I sleep, 
For Jesus' sake, Amen. 



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God is Almighty. All things are his servants. 

Catechism 5. 

God can do every thing. Is God as strong as winds and 
floods and fire ? 

Yes. The winds are God's servants. 

The waters are God's servants. 

The fires are God's servants. 

God is Almighty. 
Repeat Job 9 : 4. 

Job 9 : 4. God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. 
Who has hardened himself against him and has prospered ? 
Repeat Mark 4 : 39. 



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Mark 4 : 39. Jesus .... rebuked the wind, and said 
unto the sea, "Peace, be still." 

Hymn 5.— (See Psalm 29.) S. M. Tune, St. Thomas, 
Sabbath-School Hosanna, p. 106. Oriola, p. 142. 

God rides the roaring winds, 

They rush to do his will ; 
God manages the foaming floods, 

God speaks — and all is still. 

God darts the fiery flames 

Across the darkened sky ; 
He bids them pass — they flash and fade ; 

He bids them strike, we die. 

God thunders with his voice ; 

God thunders gloriously ! 
ye who love the Lord ! rejoice ! 

sinners ! fear and flee ! 

But whither shall we flee ? 

This God is everywhere ! 
Flee to the arms of Christ his Son, 

And he will bless you there. 

— Original, 



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God is the Most High, He puts down one and sets 

up another. 

Catechism 6. 

God can do every thing. Has God as much power as 
great kings and generals have ? 

Yes. God rules over all. 

Repeat Psalm 75 : 7. 

Psalm 75 : 7. " God is the judge. He putteth down 
one, and setteth up another." 



FOR THE YOUNGEST. 11 

Repeat King Nebuchadnezzar 's words, written in Daniel 
4: 35. 

Daniel 4 : 35. God doe3 as he will ... in heaven and 
... on earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, 
"What doest thou?" 

Hymn 6. — 6s and 8s. Tune, Lischer, Child's Hosanna, 
p. 113. Ann. Hymns, 32. 

Kejoice ! the Lord is King ! 

Your God and King adore ; 
Mortals, give thanks and sing, 
And triumph evermore ; 
Lift up the heart, lift up the voice, 
Rejoice aloud, ye saints, rejoice. 

Rejoice in glorious hope ! 

Jesus, our Lord, shall come, 
And take his servants up 
To their eternal home. 
We soon shall hear th' archangel's voice, 
The trump of God shall sound rejoice ! 



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God kills, and God saves alive. 

Catechism 1. 

Repeat Deut. 32 : 39. 

Deut. 32 : 39. See now that I am — and there is no 

god with me. — I kill — and I make alive ; — I wound and I 

heal ;— and there is none that can deliver — out of my hand. 

Who says this ? 

God the Lord. 

Hymn 7.— See Rev. 19 : 11-14 ; 2 Cor. 10 : 3, 4. Tune, 
"The Sunday-School Army." Child's Hosanna, p. 46. 
Ann. Hymns, p. 72, Am. S. S. U. Oriola, 135. 



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Oh ! do not be discouraged, 
For Jesus is your Friend ; 

He will give you grace to conquer, 
And keep you to the end. 

I'm glad I'm in his army, 

And I'll battle for the right ! 

Fight on, ye little soldiers, 
The battle you shall win ; 

For the Saviour is your Captain, 
And he has vanquished sin. 

I'm glad I'm in his army, 

And I'll battle for the right ! 

And when the conflict's over, 
Before him you shall stand, 

You shall sing his praise forever 
In Canaan's happy land. 

I'm glad I'm in his army, 

And I'll battle for the right. 



"Our Father" is "in Heaven." 

Catechism 8. 

Repeat the Lord's Prayer. 

Our Father, etc. (See First Lesson.) 

Where is OUR FATHER? 

Our Father is in heaven. 

Hymn 8. — Tune, u Far, far o'er hill and dell;" or, 
" When shall we meet again," can be sung to it, by putting 
one syllable to each of the three notes at the close of the 
second, fourth, and eighth lines. Oriola, p. 38. 



FOR THE YOUNGEST. 13 

Hush, little Christian child, 

Speak not that holy name ! 
Not in thy passion wild ! 

Not in thy sportive game ! 
For the great Lord of all 

Heareth each word we say ; 
He will remember it 

At the great judgment day. 

Hush ! holy angels hear, 

Softly they come and go, 
Watching with love sincere, 

Shielding from sin and wo ; 
Do not with hasty words 

Vile and undutiful, 
Startle those angel guards 

So pure and beautiful. 

Honor God's holy name ; 

Speak it with thought and care ; 
Sing it to solemn hymns ; 

Breathe it in humble prayer ; 
But not with sudden call, 

In thy light joy or pain ! 
God will hold guilty all 

Who take his name in vain. 

— Altered. 



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God is here and everywhere. God is a Spirit. God is 
always with us. 

Catechism 9. 

Where is God? 

God is in heaven. 

Where else is God? 

God is here and everywhere. 



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Repeat Jeremiah 23 : 23, 24. 

Jeremiah 23 : 23, 24. I am a God at hand — saith the 
Lord,— and not a God afar off. — Can any hide himself — in 
secret places — that I shall not see him ? — saith the Lord. — 
Do not I — fill heaven and earth ? — saith the Lord. 

God is here. Do you see him ? 

No. God is a spirit ; and we do not see him. 

Repeat John 4 : 24. 

John 4 : 24. God is a spirit. 

Repeat Psalm 139 : 18. 

Psalm 139 : 18. When I awake — I am still with thee. 

Wlien you awake whom are you with ? 

With God our Father. 

Hymn 9.— Oriola, p. 213 ; Sabbath-School Bell, No. 1, 

p. 100. 

When little Samuel woke 

And heard his Maker's voice, 
At every word he spoke 
How much did he rejoice. 
blessed, happy child ! to find, 
The God of heaven so near and kind. 

If God would speak to me 

And say he was my Friend, 
How happy should I be, 
Oh ! how I would attend ! 
The smallest sin I then should fear 
If God Almighty were so near. 

And does he never speak ? 
Oh ! yes, for in his word 
He bids me come and seek 
The God whom Samuel heard. 
In almost every page I see 
The God of Samuel calls to me. 

And I, beneath his care, 
May safely rest my head ; 



FOR THE YOUNGEST. 15 

I know that God is there 
To guard my humble bed. 
And every sin I well may fear 
Since God Almighty is so near. 

RHYMES FOR NIGHT. 

L. M. 

I will not fear 
Tor God is near 
Through the dark night, 
As in the light, 
And while I sleep, 
Safe watch will keep 
Why should I fear 
When God is near ? 



God never leaves you "all alone" 
Do not sin; for you can not get away from God. 

Catechism 10. 
Repeat Proverbs 15 : 3. 

Proverbs 15 : 3. The eyes of the Lord — are in every 
place — beholding the evil and the good. 
Repeat Jeremiah 23 : 23, 24. 
(See Ninth Lesson.) 

Hymn 10. L. M. 

Alone, yet not alone am I, 

When all is dark and wild and drear, 

My heavenly Father still is nigh, 
He comes the weary hours to cheer ; 

I am with him, and he with me, 

So "all alone" I'can not be ! 



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God watches yon; please Him, 

Catechism 11. 

Repeat the words of Jesus, written in John 8 : 29. 

John 8 : 29. The Father has not left me alone, — for I 
do always — those things that please him. 

Can we please God, as Jesus did ? 

No one is as good as Jesus — but we may be like Jesus — 
and please God. 

Who are like Jesus, and who do please God? 

Those who believe in him, — and have his Spirit. (See 
Hebrews 11 : 6.) 

[References introduced by " see" are for the reader only ; and not 
to be learned for School.] 

Hymn 11. — Tune in Sabbath-School Hosanna, p. 120. 
Oriola, p. 140. Anniversary and Sabbath-School Hymns, 
American Sunday-School Union, p. 68. Sabbath-School 
Bell, No. 1, p. 32. 

I want to be like Jesus, 

So lowly and so meek ; 
For no one marked an angry word, 

That ever heard him speak. 

I want to be like Jesus ; 

I never, never find 
That he, though persecuted, was 

To any one unkind. 

I want to be like Jesus, 

So frequently in prayer ; 
Alone, upon the mountain side, 

He met his Father there. 



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I want to be like Jesus, 

Engaged in doing good, 
So that of me it may be said : 

" She hath done what she could." 

Alas ! I'm not like Jesus, 

As any one may see ! 
gentle Saviour ! send thy grace, 

And make me like to thee. 



God is from everlasting to everlasting. 

Catechism 12. 

Repeat Psalm 90 : 2. 

Psalm 90 : 2. Even from everlasting — to everlastings 
thou art God. 

Repeat the first verse in the Bible. 

Gen. 1:1. In the beginning — God created — the heav- 
ens and the earth. 

In the beginning, who was there ? 

In the beginning God was there. 

Repeat Isaiah 44 : 6. 

Isaiah 44 : 6. Thus saith the Lord — I am the first — and 
I am the last. 

Repeat Psalm 27 : 10. 

Psalm 27 : 10. When my father — and my mother — for- 
sake me, — then the Lord will take me up. 

Hymn 12. — Tune the same as Hymn 4. Chorus on page 
3 of Sabbath-School Bell, No. 1. 

The watch is ticking, ticking, 
Ticking my minutes away ; 



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The minutes make the hours, 
And the hours make up the day. 

Chorus. 
We are passing away, 
"We are passing away, 
We are passing away, 
To the great judgment-day. 

The clock is striking, striking 
The hours so loud and clear; 

The hours make up the day, 
And the days make up the year. 

Chorus. 
We are passing a w ay, etc. 

The bell is tolling, tolling, 
For one whose day is done ; 

Where time is known no longer, 
That weary soul has gone. 

Chorus. 
We are passing away, etc. 

To be slowly spoken : 

And soon 'twill toll for me, 
And then my home will be 
Where the watch ticks no more, 
And the clock strikes no more, 
And there's no more time for me. 

What will there be for you then ? 

Eternity. 

Who will always be there with you in Eternity ? 

God. 



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Cjmteeittjj lesson, 

God is perfectly and eternally holy. 

Catechism 13. 

Repeat Deuteronomy 32 : 4. 

Deuteronomy 32 : 4. God is the Rock. — His work is 
perfect. — ... A God of truth, — and without iniquity, — 
just and right is he. 

What did John hear the living ones say in heaven ? Re- 
peat Revelation 4 : 8. 

Revelation 4 : 8. Holy, holy, holy, — Lord God Al- 
mighty, — who was, — and is, — and is to come. 

What did Isaiah hear the seraphim saying in the temple ? 
Repeat Isaiah 6:3. 

Isaiah 6 : 3. Holy, holy, holy, — the Lord of hosts, — the 
whole earth — is full of his glory. 

Hymn 13. — (See Isaiah 6 ; Rev. 4.) Tune, Horton, 7s. 
Sabbath-School Hosanna, p. 131. 

Holy, holy, holy One ! 
Lord Almighty ! God alone ! 
Who, in heaven, and earth, and sea, 
Is, and was, and still shall be ! 

Angels shrink within their wings, 
Each low bending as he sings : 
" Holy, holy, holy Lord ! 
Be thy glorious name adored !" 

We our hearts and voices raise, 
Echoing thine eternal praise, 
Holy, holy, holy Lord, 
Be thy glorious name adored. 



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Christ is our eternal and perfect Saviour. 

Catechism 14. 

Who was with God in the beginning? Repeat John 
1 : I, 14. 

John 1:1, 14. In the beginning was the Word — and the 
Word was with God, — and the Word was God ; — and the 
Word was made flesh — and dwelt among us. 

Who is the Word? (See John 1 : 14, 18.) 

The Word means Jesus, the only Son of God. 

What is Christ called in Daniel 9 : 24 ? 

The Most Holy. 

Is Jesus a man ? 

Sing Jesus who lives. Hymn 2. 

Jesus died, but he is alive again. What did he say to 
John? Revelation 1 : 18. 

Kev. 1:18. Jesus said, — I am alive for evermore, — and 
have the keys of hell and of death. 

Jesus can save forever from hell and death. Whom will 
he save f Repeat Hebrews 7 : 25. 

Hebrews 7 : 25. He is able to save them to the utter- 
most, — that come to God by him. 

What is his message ? Repeat Rev. 22 : 17. 

Kev. 22 : 17. Come, — and let him that heareth say, Come. 

Come where ? 

Come to Jesus. 

Hymn 14. — The Child's Response. Tune, Lily Dale. 
Words and music in the Child's Paper, (Am. Tract Society, 
New- York,) July, 1861. 



FOR THE YOUNGEST. 21 

Oh ! to come to thee ! oh ! to come to thee ! 

To thy heaven so pure and bright ! 
Oh ! to cast me down, with my harp and crown, 

Before thy throne of light ! 

Chorus. 
Jesus, blest Jesus ! thy face to see, 
Thy loving smile beaming all the while, 
Beaming all the while on me. 

Oh ! to sing thy praise all the happy days, 

With the mighty, mighty throng ; 
While the angels by, listen silently 

To the ransomed sinner's song. — Chorus. 

Not a want or care e'er to enter there ! 

Not a sorrow, sigh, or tear ! 
But a perfect rest, upon Jesus' breast, 

And a love that knows no fear. — Chorus 

Little child of sin, can I enter in 

To that holy, happy home ? 
my God ! I pray, take my sin away ; 

Jesus, suffer me to come. — Chorus. 

— By the author of " I want to be an Angel." 



Have reverence for God, 

Catechism 15. 

Say the Lord's Prayer. (See First Lesson.) 

Repeat the Third Commandment. 

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in 
vain ; — for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh 
his name in vain. 



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Hymn 15. C. M. 

"When daily I kneel down to pray, 

As I am taught to do, 
God does not care for what I say, 

Unless I feel it too. 

Yet foolish thoughts my heart beguile, 

And when I pray or sing, 
I'm often thinking all the while 

About some other thing. 

Oh ! let me never, never dare 

To act a liar's part 
Or think that God will hear a prayer 

That comes not from the heart. 

But if I make his ways my choice, 

As holy children do, 
Then while I seek him with my voice, 

My heart will love him too. 



God is holy. God loves goodness and rewards it. 

Catechism 16. 
Recite Psalm 11:7. 

Psalm 11:7. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness. 
Recite Isaiah 3 : 10. 

Isaiah 3 : 10. Say ye to the righteous — that it shall be 
well with him : — for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 
How is it well with the righteous even here f 

1. We feel happy when we are good. 

2. People like those who are true and kind. 






FOR THE YOUNGEST. 23 

3. Fathers and mothers love their good children best, 
and do most to please them. 

4. The good scholars get the honors and prizes. 

5. Those who do well are respected, and helped, and em- 
ployed. 

Recite Matthew 6 : 20. 

Matthew 6 : 20. But lay up for yourselves — treasures in 
heaven. 

Hymn 16. S. M. Dennis, Sabbath-School Hosanna, 
p. 105. Oriola, p. 204. 

There is a land above 

All beautiful and bright, 
And those who love and serve the Lord 

Rise to that world of light. 

There sin is known no more, 

Nor tears, nor want, nor care ! 
There good and happy beings dwell, 

And all are holy there. 



God is holy. God loves goodness and rewards it j God 
hates sin and punishes for it. 

Catechism 17. 

Repeat Psalm 11 : 7, 5. 

Psalm 11 : 7, 5. The righteous Lord loveth righteous- 
ness : but the wicked .... his soul hateth. 

Repeat the words of our Lord Jesus printed in John 12 : 26. 

John 12 : 26. If any man serve me, — let him follow me ; 
— and where I am — there shall also my servant be ; — if any 
man serve me, — him will my Father honor. 



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Repeat the words of our Lord Jesus printed in Matthew 

25 : 41. 

Matthew 25 : 41. Depart from me — ye cursed — into 
everlasting fire — prepared for the devil and his angels. 
Who is the devil ? 
Satan, the wicked one. 
Who are his angels ? 

The angels who sinned with him ; — they are devils now. 
Can they be seen ? 
No ; they are spirits. 

What punishment did God prepare for them? 
The lake of fire. 
Who else must go there ? 
All who are like them ; all the wicked ones. 

Hymn IT. — For " Oh ! there will be mourning,'' words 
in full and music, see Sabbath-School Hosanna, p. 51, Ply- 
mouth Collection, p. 128, and Hastings's Spiritual Songs. 
A very different arrangement in Sabbath-School Bell, No. 2, 
p. 155. 

There is a dreadful hell, 

And everlasting pains ; 
There sinners must forever dwell, 

In darkness, fire, and chains. 



Oh ! there will be mourning 

Before the judgment-seat, 
When this world is burning 

Beneath Jehovah's feet. 
Friends and kindred then will part, 

Will part to meet no more ; 
Wrath will sink the rebel's heart, 

While saints on high adore. 
Oh ! there will be mourning 

Before the judgment-seat. 



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God is holy, God hates wickedness, and punishes. 

Catechism 18. God hates wickedness, and punishes. 

Repeat Psalm 11 : 7, 5. 

Psalm 11 : 7, 5. The righteous Lord loveth righteous- 
ness ; . . . . but the wicked his soul hateth. 

Repeat the words of God printed in Jeremiah 44 : 4. 

Jeremiah 44 : 4. Oh ! do not this abominable thing that 
I hate. 

What is it that God hates ? 

God hates sin. 

Will God punish wicked ones ? 

God does punish, and he will. 

Tell me whom God punished in old times, 

1. Adam and Eve. 2. the people in the time of the 
Flood. 3. The men of Sodom. 

What does God hring upon the wicked now ? 

Shame, sorrow, sickness, death. 

How will God punish bad people after death ? Repeat 
Matthew 25 : 46. 

Matthew 25 : 46. These shall go away into everlasting 
punishment. 

Hymn 18. — Tune, Benevento, Oriola, p. 42. 

Sinners, turn ; why will ye die ? 
God your Father asks you — Why ? 
Sinners, turn ; why will ye die ? 
God your Saviour asks you — Why ? 
Sinners, turn ; why will ye die ? 
God the Spirit asks you — Why ? 
ye thankless creatures — why 
Will ye grieve your God and die ? 



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God is holy and merciful, Jesus Christ died for our sins. 

Catechism 19. Was there ever one good man who never 
sinned? Answer from 1 Peter 2 : 22, 21. 

1 Peter 2 : 22, 21. Christ — who did no sin — suffered 
for us. 

Repeat 1 Peter 3 : 18. 

1 Peter 3 : 18. Christ also hath once suffered for sins — 
the just for the unjust. 

Recite 1 Cor. 15 : 3. 

1 Cor. 15 : 3. Christ died for our sins. 

Hymn 19.— See Sabbath-School Bell, No. 2, p. 160. 

Jesus ! blessed Jesus ! 

Suffering so for me ! 
Hanging by those dreadful spikes, 

To the cursed tree ! 
All thy body quivering 

In the cruel strain, 
Burnt with fever, parched with thirst, 

Backed with fearful pain. 

Jesus ! blessed Jesus ! 

Suffering so for me ! 
Darkness drear — without, within — 

Settles down on thee. 
Spotless Lamb ! yet bearing 

All the heavy load 
Of the sins of all the world, 

And the wrath of God ! 

Jesus ! blessed Jesus ! 

Suffering so for me ! 
Hark ! the last expiring groan 

Bursts from Calvary 



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Jesus dying ! dying ! 

Dying so for me ! 
God forgive me for the sake 

Of his agony ! 
— By the author of u I want to be an Angel," 



God is love. God gives us our daily bread. 

Catechism 20. Daily bread. 

Repeat the Lord's Prayer. 

Our Father, etc. 

Give us what ? 

Give us this day our daily bread. 

When Elijah was hid by the brook Cherith, how did God 
send him his daily bread ? 

The ravens brought him bread and flesh — in the morn- 
ing, — and bread and flesh — in the evening ; — and he drank 
of the brook. 

When the Israelites were travelling through the wilderness, 
how did God give them their daily bread ? 

He rained down manna for them — every morning— with 
the dew. 

How does God give children their daily bread ? 

Our parents and friends have it ready for us every day — 
at breakfast, dinner, and supper. 

A Thanksgiving, to be used at meals, or said every 
evening : 

Our kind heavenly Father, 

By whom we all are fed, 
Thanks to thee for home and friends, 

And thanks for daily bread. 



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Hymn 20. L. M. S. S. Hosanna, p. 120. 
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ; 
Praise' him, all creatures here below ; 
Praise him above, ye heavenly host, 
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 



God is love. God feeds all creatures. God gives us 

all we eat and drink, 
Catechism 21. 

Repeat 1 John 4 : 16. 
1 John 4:16. God is love. 
Who feeds the wild beasts and birds ? 
God feeds all living creatures. 
Repeat Psalm 145 : 15. 

Psalm 145 : 15. Thou givest them their meat — in due 
season. 

Poem 21. 

PIOTUKE LESSON" ABOUT FOOD. 



Harvesting. 



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Description. Grain upon this card is seen ; 

'Tis like grass but not so green ; 
Men, with busy hands and feet, 
Tie it up in bundles neat. 

Explanation. It may be barley, rye, or wheat, 

Of which is made the bread we eat ; 
But God, and only God, you know, 
Can make the grass and grain to grow. 

[Repeated, with questions and remarks, till it is understood that our 
bread comes from God, because he makes the grain grow.] 




Domestic Animals. 



Des. And here the noble cow we see ; 
Exp. She gives good milk for you and me ; 

From milk comes butter too, and cheese ; 

God made the cow to give us these. 



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Des, Sheep and a cow and calf are here ; 

And there's a pig, too, standing near ; 
Exp. God made and gave us these for meat- 
[Pointing.] Veal, mutton, beef, and pork we eat. 




Vegetables. 



Des. Here's a plant which bears no fruit. 
Exp. Potatoes grow upon its root ; 

Beets, carrots, beans, and peas all grow ; 

'Twas God made all the plants, you know. 



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The Coffee Plant 

Des. Here's a bush of berries full. 
Exp, From them coffee-grains we pull ; 

This bush is called the coffee-tree ; 

God gives coffee too, you see. 




Preparing Tea Leaves. 



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Des. Here are trees ; and people nigh 
Pick the leaves, and roll and dry 
And pack them up, to send afar. 

Exp. Tea plants these pretty bushes are. 




Sugar Canes. 

Des. and Exp. And the sugar that we want 
God makes grow in this tall plant. 
Then God is yery kind, I think, 

To MAKE ALL THINGS WE EAT OR DRINK. 



God is love. God gives us all we wear. 
Catechism 22. 
Repeat 1 John 4 : 16. 
1 John 4:16. God is love. 

Repeat the words of our Lord Jesus written in Matthew 
6: 30. 



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Matthew 6 : 30. If God so clothe — the grass of the 
field, .... — shall he not — much more clothe you ? 

Repeat Psalm 145 : 9. 

Psalm 145 : 9. The Lord is good to all — and his tender 
mercies — are over all his works. 

Say over, "God clothes the" — 

God clothes the plants — and makes them beautiful. 

God clothes the beasts and birds ! — and makes them warm. 

How much more — will he clothe his children ! 

Poem 22. 
PICTURE LESSON ABOUT CLOTHING. 




Sheep and Lambs. 

Des. Here are little lambs and sheep ; 

How they run and skip and leap ! 
Exp. God made sheep with nice thick wool, 

To clothe them when the weather's cool ; 

Men cut it off, when long enough, 

To make us all our woolen stuff. 



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Flax Plants, 

Des. On this card are flax plants too ; 

See their flowers of soft light blue. 
Exp. Small, strong threads run up the stem ; 

All our linen's made from them. 




Cotton Plants. 



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Des. And here the cotton plant is shown. 

JSxp. The cotton is this fleecy down ; 

Warm quilts, fine work, cheap calico, 
Are made of this. God makes it grow. 




Silkworms. (See page 36.) 
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Cocoons. (See page 30.) 



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Des. See this worm upon the leaves ; 

Threads of silk it spins and weaves ; 
Some balls of silk are lying nigh, 
And yonder is a butterfly. 

Exp. The little worms made those silk balls ; 

From such come all silk frocks and shawls. 
All things for clothing or for food, 
God made for us. Oh ! God is good ! 



God is kind. The Lord Jesus makes his people alivo 
and happy forever. 

Catechism 23. 

Our food is soon gone, and we grow hungry again. Who 
can keep us alive and well forever ? 

The Lord Jesus can. Jesus says: " I am the bread of 
life." 

Repeat John 6 : 35. 

John 6 : 35. Jesus said — I am the bread of life : — he 
that cometh to me — shall never hunger ; — and he that be- 
lieveth on me — shall never thirst. 

Repeat John 6 : 47, 48. 

John 6 : 47, 48. Jesus said, "He that believeth on 
me — hath everlasting life — I am that bread of life." 

Then what must we do to live forever ? 

Come to the Lord Jesus. Believe on him. 

If we do not, what will become of us ? 

If we do not believe in Jesus — we shall die the second 

death. 

Hymn 23. 7s. 

'Twas to save our souls from dying, 
Save us from the burning flame, 

Bitter groans and endless crying, 
That the blessed Jesus came. 



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Help me, Lord, to love and fear thee, 
Trust and mind thee all my days ; 

Then go dwell forever near thee, 
See thy face and sing thy praise. 



God is good. Those who believe in Christ, the Son of 
God, have eternal life. 
Catechism 24. 
Recite John 3:16. 

John 3:16. God so loved the world — that he gave his 
only-begotten Son — that whosoever believeth in him — 
should not perish — but have everlasting life. 
What is "The Record" in 1 John 5 : 11, 12 ? 
1 John 5 : 11, 12. This is the record : 
That God hath given to us eternal life, 
And this life is in his Son : 
He that hath the Son hath life, 
And he that hath not the Son of God — hath not life. 

[This may be taught on the fingers.] 

Hymn 24. Tune, "Wales," in S. S. Hosanna, p. 104. 
Anniversary and Sunday-School Hymns, No. 78. Oriola, 
p. 123. 

There's a Friend above all others, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
His is love beyond a brother's, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
Earthly friends may fail and leave us ; 
Earthly love may change and grieve us ; 
Jesus never will deceive us, 

Oh ! how he loves ! 



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Jesus shed his blood to save us ! 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
All our hopes of heaven he gave us ; 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
Looking down, he hears, he sees us ; 
Still the same, our Friend, our Jesus ! 
Still the same, our Friend, our Jesus I 

Oh t how he loves ! 

Jesus, be my Friend and Brother ; 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
Jesus, I can trust no other ; 

Oh ! how he loves ! 
Let me not from thee be driven ; 
Make me pure and fit for heaven ; 
Say my sins are all forgiven ! 

Oh ! how he loves ! — Two verses new. 



God is kind. The word of God is like pure milk for 
babes. It makes ns grow to be like Jesus, if we hear 
and do it. 

Catechism 25. 

Recite 1 Peter 2 : 2. 

1 Peter 2:2. As new-born babes — desire the sincere 
milk — of the word — that ye may grow thereby. 

What is the sincere milk of the word? 

The pure word of God — spoken by Jesus — and by apos- 
tles and prophets. 

How can we get their word ? 

From the Bible, — and from those who preach and 
teach it. 



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Recite part of James 1 : 22. 

James 1 : 22. But be ye doers of the word — and not 
hearers only. 

How shall we grow, if we hear God's word and do it f 
Grow to be like Jesus. 

Poem 25. 
THE GROWING SONG. 

AN EXERCISE. 

Tune, Temperance Call, page 15 Anniversary Hymns of 
American Sunday-School Union. S. S. Bell, No. 2, p. 123. 
(Chorus might be sung to other notes imitating the tones 
of the nursery play, or spoken. Imitate the gestures of the 

p&y.) 

Little baby, weak and small, 
How can you grow strong and tall ? 
Can you ever be a man ? 
Drink your milk and then you can. 

Chorus. 
Stretch your arms, little one, try, try, try, 
How high ? so high, so, so high. 
Drink, drink, drink, and try, try, try ; 
How high ? so high, so, so high. 

Fellow-Christians, weak and low, 
God's pure word can make us grow. 
Let us hear and heed the word, 
Soon we shall be like our Lord. 

Chorus. 

Cheerily, heartily, let us try, 

Aim high ! Aim high ! Aim, aim high ! 

Read, read, listen, pray and try. 

Aim high, aim high, aim, aim high. — Original. 



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God is kind. Christ sends the Holy Spirit from the 
Father to give life, strength, and joy, (See John 15 : 26 ; 
John 4 ; John 1 : 37-39.) 

Catechism 26. 

What is written in 1 Cor. 10 : 4? 

1 Cor. 10 : 4. That rock was Christ. 

What was the rock in Horeh like ? 

The rock in Horeb was like Christ. 

How and why ? 

Because Christ gives just what we must have. 

What is it we must have ? 

We must have the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit. 

What was the water like ? I mean the water that flowed 
from the smitten rock. What was that water like 1 

The water from the rock was like the Holy Spirit. 

How and why ? 

Because the Spirit gives life, and strength, and joy. 

Recite John 6 : 63. 

John 6 : 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth. It is tho 
Spirit that gives life. 

Hymn 26. 

WATER SONG. 

Tune, "Lily Dale;" or else u Some love to roam," with 
chorus adapted. 

Some love to drink from the foamy brink 
Where the wine- drop's dance they see ; 

But the water bright, in its silver light, 
And a crystal cup for me. 



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water ! bright water ! 

Pure, precious, free ! 
Yes, 'tis water bright, in its silver light, 

And a crystal cup for me. 

Oh ! a goodly thing is the cooling spring, 
'Mong the rocks where the moss doth grow ; 

There's health in the tide, and there's music beside, 
In the brooklet's bounding flow. 

water ! etc. 

As pure as heaven is the water given, 

"lis forever fresh and new ; 
Distilled in the sky, it comes from on high, 

In the shower and the gentle dew. 
water ! etc. 



God is love. The best way to be joyful is to be filled 
with the Spirit of God, 

Catechism 27. 

Recite part of Ephesians 5 : 18-20. 

Ephesians 5 : 18-20. Be not drunk with wine, — wherein 
is excess, — but be filled with the Spirit — speaking to your- 
selves in hymns — singing and making melody — in your 
heart — to the Lord. 

Recite Proverbs 20 : 1. 

Proverbs 20 : 1. Wine is a mocker, — strong drink is 
raging, — and whosoever — is deceived thereby — is not wise. 

Recite part of Proverbs 23 : 31, 32. 

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when it is red, — ... at the last — it biteth like a serpent 
and stingeth like an adder. 
Ephesians 5 : 18, 20, again. 

Htmn 27. Tune, "Lily Dale." 

THE LIVING WATER. 
(See John 4.) 

The day is hot, the air is dry, 

The flowerets fade away ; 
But God sends water from the sky, 

And all is fresh and gay. 
water ! bright water, 

Pure, precious, free ! 
Yes, 'tis water bright, 

In its silver light, 

And a crystal cup for me ! 

So Jesus sends his Spirit near, 

Unseen as falls the dew ; 
It comes our fainting souls to cheer, 

It springs forever new ! 
Blest Spirit, Christ's Spirit, 

Pure, precious, free, 
This water bright, 
Full of heaven's own light, 

Dear Saviour, give to me. 

This " living water" makes the heart 

A well of love and joy ; 
We long our blessings to impart, 

And songs our lips employ. 
Blest Spirit, etc. — Original. 



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We must never take what does us harm. 

Catechism 28. 

Recite Proverbs 23 : 29, 30* 

Proverbs 23 : 29, 30. Who hath wo ? who hath sorrow ? 
who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath 
wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They 
that tarry long at the wine. They that go to seek mixed 
wine. 

Tell me about Alcohol. 

Alcohol— is a stim-u-la-ting poison. 

Alcohol — makes our hearts beat too fast. — It makes us 
wild and crazy — or heavy and stupid — till we sleep or die. 

Does any one drink alcohol ? 

Yes. There is alcohol in brandy — whisky — rum — gin — 
punch — wine — ale — beer — lager beer — and frothing cider. 
[Counting on the fingers.] 

Yes, and there are other poisons in them too. 

Now tell me about Opium and Tobacco. 

Opium and Tobacco — are narcotic poisons. They make 
our hearts beat too slowly. — They hurt our heads inside. — 
They take away our strength. 

What medicines have opium in them ? 

Laudanum, Paregoric, and Morphine. 

How do men poison themselves with tobacco ? 

By chewing and smoking it, — and by using segars and 
snuff. 

May we eat and drink all we want ? 

No. We must never take what does its harm. 



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Hymn 28. 

THE TEMPERANCE VOLUNTEER. 
Tune, w Crambambuli." Anniversary Hymns, 2. 

My drink shall be the flowing fountain, 
Transparent, sparkling, cool, and pure, 

Eresh from the cleft of rocky mountain, 
Eor fevered heat and thirst a cure. 

Ye madd'ning drinks, begone from me, 

Gin, Rum, Wine, Beer, and all of ye ! — 
Go, go, begone from me ! go, go, begone ! 

I saw a sight most melancholy, 

A drunkard in the public way, 
His face was fire, his voice was folly ; 

There wallowing like a swine he lay ! 

drinks of fools I begone from me, etc. 

Long as I live this thought I'll cherish, 
If Heaven vouchsafe to keep me free, 

Strong drink is but the way to perish ; 
Cold water is the drink for me ! 

Ye treacherous drinks, begone from me, etc. 



God is good. He gives us all our pleasures and all 

our powers. 
Catechism 29. 

Recite 1 John 4 : 8. 

1 John 4 : 8. God is love. 

What shows God's love ? 

God gives us all our pleasures. God gives us all our 

powers. 

What is said in 1 Timothy 6 : 17? 



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1 Timothy 6:17. Trust ... in the living God — who 
giveth us — richly — all things to enjoy. 
What is the best pleasure $ 
The best pleasure is joy in the Holy Spirit. 

Hymn 29. 

THE CHRISTIAN'S JOY. 

6s and 9s. Child's Hosanna, p. 38. 

How happy are they 

Who their Saviour obey, 
And have laid up their treasure above ! 

Oh ! what tongue can express 

The sweet comfort and peace 
Of a soul in its earliest love ! 

'Tis heaven below 

The Redeemer to know ! 
And the angels could do nothing more 

Than to sit at his feet, 

And the story repeat, 
And the Saviour of sinners adore. 

Jesus all the day long, 

Is the joy and the song ! 
And salvation through faith in his name ! 

Oh ! that all would believe, 

And the Spirit receive, 
And their song and their joy be the same. 



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When yon are tempted to wrong, say Ho. 

Catechism 30. 
Say the Lor&s Prayer. 
(See First Lesson.) 
Lead us not into what ? 
Lead us not into temptation. 
Deliver us from what $ 
Deliver us from evil. 
Recite Proverbs 1 : 10. 

Proverbs 1:10. My son — if sinners entice thee — consent 
thou not. 

TEMPTATION. 30. 
8s and 6s. 

" Will you walk into my parlor ?" 

Said a Spider to a Fly : 
" 'Tis the prettiest little parlor 
That ever you did spy. 
The way into my parlor 
Is up a winding stair, 
And I have many pretty things 
To show you when you're there." 
" Oh ! no, no," said the little Fly, 
To ask me is in vain ; 
For who goes up your winding stairs 
Can ne'er come down again." 

The Spider turned him round about, 

And went into his den, 
For well he knew the silly Fly 

Would soon be back again. 
So he wove a subtle web 

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And set his table ready- 
To dine upon the Fly. 

He went out to his door again, 
And merrily did sing : 
" Come hither, hither, pretty Fly, 
With pearl and silver wing ; 

Your robes are green and purple, 
There's a crest upon your head, 

Your eyes are like the diamond bright, 
But mine are dull as lead." 

Alas ! alas ! how very soon 

This silly little Fly, 
Hearing his wily, flattering words 

Came slowly flitting by. 
With buzzing wings she hung aloft, 

Then near and nearer drew — 
Thought only of her brilliant eyes, 

And green and purple hue ; 
Thought only of her crested head — 

Poor foolish thing ! At last 
Up jumped the cunning Spider, 

And fiercely held her fast. 
He dragged her up his winding stair, 

Into his dismal den, 
Within his little parlor — but 

She ne'er came out again ! 

And now dear little children 

Who may this story read, 
To idle, silly, flattering words, 

I pray you ne'er give heed : 
Unto an evil counsellor 

Close heart and ear and eye, 
And take a lesson from this tale 

Of the Spider and the Fly. — Mary Howitt. 



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G-od is kind and full of pity. He sends pain and sor- 
row, but he does not like to do it. 

Catechism 31. 

Recite 1 John 4 : 16. 

1 John 4:16. God is love. 

Recite 1 Timothy 6 : 11. 

1 Timothy 6 : 11. The living God who giveth us richly- 
all things to enjoy. 

Does God send pains and sorrows too ? 

Yes, God sends pains and sorrows,-^but he would rather 
not. 

Recite Lamentations 3 ; 33. 

Lamentations 3 ; 33. The Lord does not afflict will- 
ingly — nor grieve — the children of men. 

Recite Lamentations 3:32. 

Lamentations 3 : 32. Though he cause grief — yet will he 
have compassion — according to the multitude of his mercies. 

Repeat the words of God written in Ezekiel 18 : 32. 

Ezekiel 18:32. I have no pleasure in — the death of him 
that dieth— saith the Lord God — wherefore turn and live ye. 
Hymn 31. S. M. 

The pity of the Lord 

For those who fear his name 

Is such as tender parents feel ; 
He knows our feeble frame. 

He will not always chide ; 

And when his strokes are felt, 
His strokes are fewer than our sins, 

And lighter than our guilt. 



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God gives us all our friends. God gives us his beloved 
Son Jesus to be our Saviour, 

Catechism 32. 

Recite 1 John 4 : 16. 

1 John 4 : 16. God is love. 

God gives us all our friends. He gives us love. Recite, 
God gives us our fathers and mothers, etc. 

[Counting seven on the fingers.] Grod gives US our fathers 
and mothers — our sisters and brothers — our grandfathers 
and grandmothers — our uncles and aunts and cousins — our 
pastors and teachers — our school-fellows and friends — and 
all who love us. 

And what is best of all ? 

And what is best of all — God gives us his dear Son Je- 
sus — to be our Saviour. , 

Recite John 3 : 16. 

John 3 : 16. God so loved the world that he gave his 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life. 

When the Lord Jesus was in the world, what did he give us ? 

Jesus gave us — the word of God — and his apostles. 

Now that tlie Lord Jesus is in heaven, what does he send to 
us ? 

Jesus sends us — the Holy Spirit — and preachers and 
teachers. 



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Hymn 32. Tune, Nurembur'g. Chorus sung by boys 
and girls alternately. 7s. Oriola, p. 54. 

First Part. 

" Let us with a joyful mind 
Praise the Lord, for he is kind ; 

Chorus. 

For his mercies shall endure, 

Ever faithful, ever sure." — Milton. 

All we eat and drink and wear, 

Proves our heavenly Father's care. — Chorus. 

Earth and sky, and flower and tree, 

All we hear, and feel and see, — Chorus. 

All our power to feel and move, 

Shows our heavenly Father's love. — Chorus. 

Father, mother, home, and friends 

Are the gifts his goodness sends ; — Chorus. 

But one gift above the rest 

Is the noblest and the best, — Chorus. 

His own Son the Father gives ! 

Jesus died ! and Jesus lives ! — Chorus. 

Second Part. 

11 Sing we then with saints above 
Praises to redeeming love," — Chorus. 
Praises for the Son from heaven, 
Through whose death we are forgiven ! — Chorus. 
For the Spirit from above, 
Filling us with life and love ! — Cho7*us. 
For the Father reconciled, 
Blessing each repentant child ! — Chorus. 
Praise the Father, praise the Son, 
Praise the Spirit, Three in One ! 
For his mercies shall endure, 
Ever faithful, ever sure. 

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The Lord Jesus is the Good Shepherd. 

Catechism 33. 

Recite Psalm 23 : 1, 2. 

Psalm 23 : 1, 2. The Lord is my Shepherd— -I shall not 
want. — He maketh me to lie down — in green pastures — he 
leadeth me — beside the still waters. 

Recite Isaiah 40 : 11. 

Isaiah 40 : 11. He shall gather the lambs — with his 
arm, — and carry them — in his bosom. 

Recite John 10 : 14, 15, 2*7, 28. 

John 10. Jesus said, "I am the good Shepherd — and 
know my sheep — and am known of mine,- — .... and I 
lay down my life — for the sheep. — My sheep hear my 
voice, — and I know them, — and they follow me ; — and 
I give unto them eternal life ; — and they shall never 
perish, — neither shall any one — pluck them out of my 
hand." 

Who is the good Shepherd? 

The Lord Jesus is the good Shepherd. 

Who are his sheep and lambs ? 

All who know him — and hear his voice — and follow him. 

How does Jesus speak to his people ? 

By his word and his Spirit. 

What has he done for his sheep ? 

He laid down his life for the sheep. 

Who is like the wolf? 

Satan, the devil. 

Can he carry off Chrisfs sheep ? 

No ; no one shall pluck them out of the hands of Jesus. 



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Hymn 33. 6s and 5s. 

Do no sinful action, 

Speak no angry word ; 
Ye belong to Jesus, 

Children of the Lord. 
Christ was meek and gentle, 

Christ was kind and true ; 
And his little children 

Must be holy too. 



Prayer to the good Shepherd. 

Jesus, I thy lamb would be ; 
Jesus, I would follow thee. 
Samuel was thy child of old ; 
Take me too within thy fold. 



Christ is our best "Friend. 

Catechism 34. 

Recite John 15 : 13, 14. 

John 15 : 13, 14. Jesus said — Greater- love hath no 
man — than this — that a man lay down his life — for his 
friends. Ye are my friends — if ye do whatsoever I com- 
mand you. [Comments and questions.] 

Recite Matthew 10 : 32, 33. 

Matthew 10 : 32, 33. Jesus said — Whosoever shall con- 
fess me — before men, — him will I confess — before my 
Father who is in heaven. — But whosoever shall deny me — 
before men, — him will I also deny — before my Father who 
is in heaven. [Teacher explains.] 

Recite parts of Luke 13 : 25, 27. 



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Luke 13 : 25, 27. Jesus said to the wicked — When "ye 
begin to stand without, — and to knock at the door — 
saying — ' Lord, Lord, open unto us,' — .... he shall 
say — 1 1 tell you I know you not : . . . . depart from 
me — all ye workers of iniquity.' " 

Hymn 34. Tune in Child's Hosanna, p. 27 ; Anniversary 
Hymns, Am. S. S. U., p. 79 ; Oriola, p. 226 ; S. S. Bell, 
JS T o. 1, p. 193. 

We're the lambs of the flock, 

And no danger we fear, 
When the voice and the call 
Of our Shepherd we hear. 
Then we follow, then we follow, 
Then we follow, follow, follow, follow, 
In the steps of the flock, 

When the Shepherd we hear. 

We are tiny and weak, 

But our Shepherd is strong ! 
From the wolf he defendeth us 
All the day long, 
If we follow, etc., 
In the track of his chosen ones 
All the day long. 

The pastures are green, 

And the flowers bloom around ; 
By the side of still waters 
He lets us lie down, 
If we follow, etc., 
If we follow his call 

When the flowers bloom around. 

Oh ! that all the dear lambs 

Had a heart to reply, 
When the great Shepherd calls 
From his mansion on high. 
We will follow, etc., 
We will follow the Lord 

To his home in the sky. 



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God is kind even to bad people, and to those who 
never thank him, When we were yet sinners he 
sent his beloved Son to die for us. 

Catechism 35. 

Repeat ZuJce 6 : 35, and Matt. 5 : 45. 

Luke 6 : 35. God is kind to the unthankful and the 
evil. 

Matt. 5 : 45. He maketh his sun to rise on the evil 
and on the good; and sendeth rain on the just and on 
the unjust. 

Is God ever kind to those who have offended him ? An- 
swer from Nehemiah 9 : Vl. 

From Nehemiah 9 : 17. God is slow to anger, and ready 
to forgive. 

Repeat Romans 5 : 8. 

Romans 5 : 8. God commendeth his love towards us, in 
that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. 

Hymn 35. C. M. Tune, "Azmon." Child's Hosanna, p. 
134 ; Oriola, p. 94. 

Alas ! and did my Saviour bleed ? 

And did my Saviour die ? 
Would he devote that sacred head 

For such a worm as I ? 

Was it for sins that I have done 

He groaned upon the tree ? 
Amazing pity ! grace unknown ! 

And love beyond degree ! 

But words and tears can ne'er repay 

The debt of love I owe : 
Here, Lord, I give myself away ; 

'Tis all that I can do. 



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We must repent and turn to God. God is merciful 
and gracious. 

Catechism 36. 

What did the Lord Jesus tell the rich young man ? An- 
swer from Mark 10 : 18. 

Mark 10 : 18. There is none good but one; that is 
God. 

Recite Psalm 14 : 2. 

Psalm 14 : 2. The Lord looked down — from heaven — 
upon the children of men — to see — 

And what did he see ? Answer from the same Psalm. 

They are all gone aside — they are all together become 
filthy ; — there is none that doeth good — no, not one. 

Recite Acts 17 : 30. 

Acts 17: 30. God now commandeth all men — every- 
where — to repent. 

Why ? Answer from Acts 17 : 31. 

Acts 17 : 31. Because he has appointed a day — in 
which he will judge the world. 

God commands us to repent. What did the younger son 
say when he repented i It tells in Luke 15 : 18, 19. 

Luke 15 : 18, 19. I will arise — and go to my father, — 
and will say to him, — Father, I have sinned — against heaven 
and before thee — and am no more worthy — to be called 
thy son : — make me as one of thy hired servants. 

What did his father do when he saw him $ It tells in 
Luke 15 : 20. 

Luke 15 : 20. When he was yet a great way off — his 

father saw him — and had compassion, — and ran — and fell 
on his neck, — and kissed him. 



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Who are like that young mem ? 
Sinners who truly repent — are like that young man. 
Who is like that father ? 
God is like that father. 
Recite Luke 15:7. 

Luke 15 : 7. Likewise joy shall be in heaven over one 
sinner that repenteth. 

Hymn 36. — " The Prodigal's Return." Anniversary 
Hymns, American Sunday-School Union, p. 101 ; Sab- 
bath-School Bell, No. 1, p. 87. 

" What have I gained by sin," he said, 
" But hunger, shame, and fear ? 
My father's house abounds in bread, 
While I am starving here. 

Chorus, 
" I'll not die here for bread," he cries, 
Nor starve in foreign lands ; 
My Father's house has large supplies, 
And bounteous are his hands. 
I'll not die here for bread. 

4 I'll go and tell him all I've done, 

Fall down before his face ; 

Unworthy to be called his son, 

I'll seek a servant's place." 

I'll not die here, etc. 

His father saw him coming back, 

He saw, he ran, he smiled ; 
And threw his arms around the neck 

Of his rebellious child. 

" father ! I have sinned, forgive " — 

" Enough," the father said ; 
" Rejoice, my house, my son's alive, 
For whom I mourned as dead. 
I'll die no more, etc. 



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" Now let the fatted calf be slain, 
And spread the news around ! 
My son was dead and lives again, 
Was lost, but now is found." 
I'll die no more for bread, etc. 

'Tis thus the Lord his love reveals, 



To call poor sinners home, 
More than a father's love he feels, 
And welcomes all that come. 
I'll die no more, etc. 



We must believe in Christ. God forgives all who 

believe. 

Catechism 37. 

God told Moses to lift up a serpent of brass upon a pole. 
What for ? 

The serpent of brass was lifted up that whoever looked 
at it might not die. 

What was the matter with the people ? 

They were poisoned by snakes and were going to die. 

What did God promise? 

God promised that whoever looked at it should not die 
but live. 

Who was cured? 

Whoever believed and looked was cured. 

Who died? 

Whoever did not look died. 

Recite John 3 : 14, 15. 

John 3 : 14, 15. As Moses lifted up the serpent — in the 
wilderness — even so must the Son of Man be lifted up — 



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that whoever believeth in him — should not perish — but 
have eternal life. 

Who is the Son of Man ? 

Jesus Christ is the Son of Man — and the Son of 
God. 

How was he lifted tip ? 

Jesus Christ — was lifted up upon the cross — and 
died. 

How is our Lord Jesus lifted up now ? Two answers. 

1. Jesus is higher than the heavens — and lord over 
all. 

2. Jesus is preached of — to all men. 
Wliy is Jesus lifted up ? What for ? 

Jesus is lifted up — that whoever believes in him — should 
not perish — but have eternal life. 

What is the matter with us ? 

We are poisoned by sin — and are going to die — the 
second death. 

Who are saved? 

Whoever believes in Jesus is saved. 

Who perish ? 

Whoever does not believe in Jesus — perishes. 

Recite Acts 16 : 30, 31. 

Acts 16 : 30, 31. What must I do to be saved? .... 

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be 
saved. 

Hymn 37. 7s. 

Evert naughty thing I do, 

Every naughty word I say, 
Every naughty feeling too, 

Makes God angry every day. 

Who can take my sins away, 
Who can cure and who forgive ! 



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Hark ! I hear our Father say, 
" Look to Jesus, look and live." 

Jesus, Saviour, Son of God, 
On the cross uplifted high — 

In thy agony and blood, 

Dying, that I need not die — 

Blessed Jesus, I believe — 

Save me, cure me, bid me live ! 

Precious Saviour, now receive, 
Strengthen, help me and forgive ! 
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God is loving and kind. God is good, 

Catechism 38. A review. 
1 John 4 : 16. God is love. 

The Father hath life in himself. 
He giveth to all — life and breath, and 



John 5 : 


26. 


Acts 17 : 


25. 


all things. 




1 John 4 


: 16. 


Genesis 2 


: 1. 



Texts. 

God is love. 

The Lord God formed man of the dust 
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life. 

Daniel 5 : 23. God in whose hand thy breath is, and 
whose are all thy ways. 

1 Timothy 6 : 11. Trust in the living God who giveth 
us all things richly to enjoy. 

Lamentations 3 : 33. The Lord does not afflict willingly 
nor grieve the children of men. 



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Ezekiel 18 : 32. "I have no pleasure in the death of 
him that dieth," saith the Lord ; " wherefore turn and 
live." 

Psalm 68 : 5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge 
of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 

Luke 6 : 35. God is kind to the unthankful and the 
evil. 

Nehemiah 9 : 17. God is slow to anger and ready to 
forgive. 

Romans 5 : 8. God commendeth his love towards us 
in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. 

John 3 : 16. God so loved the world that he gave his 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life. 

Luke 15 : *1. Likewise joy shall be in heaven over one 
sinner that repenteth. 

1 John 4 : 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, 
but that he loved us, and sent his Son. 

Hymn 38.— C. M. Chorus in Methodist Collection. 

Did Jesus hang upon the cross, 

And groan and bleed for me ? 
And did he die that I might live ? 

How loving he must be ! 
the Lamb, the bleeding Lamb, 

The Lamb of Calvary, 
The Lamb that was slain, 
And has risen again 

To intercede for me ! 

Will Jesus send his Spirit down 

To live and work in me ? 
And will he make me like himself ? 
How loving he must be ! etc. 



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Is he preparing, where he lives, 

A happy home for me ? 
And will he come and take me there ? 
How loving he must be ! etc. 

— Original, except chorus. 



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God is true. God keeps his promises. 

Catechism 39. 

Recite God's promise to Noah after the flood. It is 
printed in Genesis 9 : 15. 

Genesis 9 : 15. The waters — shall no more become a 
flood — to destroy all living creatures. 

. What is the sign that it will stop raining before it makes 
such a flood? 

God's rainbow in the cloud. (See Genesis 9 : 13.) 

How many years has God been keeping that promise $ 

God has kept that promise— more than three thousand 
years. 

" My heart leaps up when I behold 
A rainbow in the sky !" 
My heavenly Father set it there, 
So bright ! so fair ! so high ! 

My heart leaps up ! God gives the sign ! 

The storm will pass away ! 
Oh ! doubt no more ; his word is sure. 

Believe — believe; obey. 

Name the four seasons. 

Spring, summer, autumn, winter. 

Recite God's promise written in Genesis 8 : 22. 



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Genesis 8 : 22. While the earth remaineth — seed-time 
and harvest — and cold and heat — and summer and winter — 
and day and night — shall not cease. 

How long has God gone on keeping that promise ? 

God has kept that promise — more than three thousand 
years; — he remembers it — every morning — and every 
evening. 

Recite the Lorfls promise to his people written in John 
16 : 23, 24. 

John 16: 23, 24. Jesus said — "Whatsoever ye shall 
ask the Father — in my name — he will give it you.' 7 

Will God keep that promise, too ? 

Yes. God keeps all his promises. God is true and 
faithful. 

Hymn 39. — Tune, " Martyn." Child's Hosanna, p, IB ; 
Oriola, p. 26. 

Child. 

Howling winds and chilling rains, 

Will you never pass away ? 
Blighted gardens, withered plains, 

Will you never more look gay ? 

Mother. 

Yes, the flowers will pierce the mold, 
Fields will wave with green and gold : 
Seed-time comes, and harvest too. 
God is faithful, God is true. 

Child. 

Scorching suns and weary hours, 

Will you never pass away ? 
I would give all summer's flowers, 

For one merry Christmas play ! 



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Father. 



Wait awhile. The sleds will go 
Swiftly o'er the sparkling snow. 
Summer comes, and winter too ; 
God is faithful, God "is true* 



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God is true. God does as lie says. 

Catechism 40. 

Tell me about Adam and Eve, and about Satan the ene- 
my coming in the serpent. [Replies.] 

Recite Genesis 3 : 15. 

Genesis 3 : 15. I will put enmity — between thee and 
the woman — and between thy seed — and her seed ; — it 
shall bruise thy head, — and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

The Lord said to Satan, " I will put enmity between thee 
and, the woman? How did God keep that word? 

God set Eve against sin and Satan. 

" / will put enmity between thy seed and her seed? Is 
God keeping that word? 

Yes. God sets all believers — against tempters — and 
against sin. 

Is there war in this world? 

Yes. There is war — between evil and good — in all the 
world. 

Who are for evil and against God ? 

The " seed of the serpent," — the " children of the 
devil." 

Who are for goodness and against Satan? 

The " seed of the woman," the children of Eve. 



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Who are " the seed of the serpent" $ 

1. All who are false and cruel — as he is. 

2. All tempters — are children of the devil — and so are 
all who go on in bad ways. 

Who are " the seed of the woman" ? 

1. Jesus Christ — is the greatest of Eve's children. He 
is "the seed of the woman." 

2. Those who trust in God — and turn from sin — and 
follow Jesus — are "the seed of the woman." 

Who leads wicked ones to war against God and goodness ? 
Satan is the leader — of the wicked. 
Who leads God's believing people to war against evil ? 
Christ Jesus. He is " the Captain-— of our salvation." 
Who will ivin the victory $ 

Christ Jesus and his people. He crushes Satan — as a 
strong man — kills a snake. 

Hymn 40. — 8s and 6s. Sung by many to the " Mar- 
seillaise." 

Am I a soldier of the cross, 

A follower of the Lamb, 
And shall I fear to own his cause, 

Or blush to speak his name ? 

Shall I be carried to the skies 

On flowery beds of ease ? 
While others fought to win the prize, 

And sailed through bloody seas ? 

Are there no foes for me to face ? 

Must I not stem the flood ? 
Is this vain world a friend to grace, 

To help me on to God ? 

Sure I must fight if I would reign, 

Increase my courage, Lord ! 
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, 

Supported by thy word. 



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God keeps his promises. 
Learn Fortieth Catechism. 

Hymn 41.— Earth's Battle-Cry. Tune, " Scots wha hae," 
or Bruoe's Address. 

Men, for whom the Saviour bled, 
Christians, by the Spirit led, 
Jesus marches at your head ! 

On to victory ! 
Hark ! it is your Captain's cry, 
Jesus calls you from on high ! 
" Nobly do, or nobly die ! 
Follow, follow me. 

" Now's the day, and now's the hour ; 
See the clouds of battle lower ; 
Satan comes with deadly power, 

Sin and slavery ! 
Who would fail his soul to save, 
Who would fill a cursed grave, 
Who so base as live a slave, 
Let him yield or flee. 

" Who for God and right and law, 
Freedom's sword will freely draw, 
Freeman stand, or freeman fall, 

Let him follow me ! 
Fight ! for I have crushed the foe ! 
Fight ! for you shall lay him low ! 
Onward, shouting as you go, 
1 Christ and victory V " 

—Original. 



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God keeps his promises, 

Catechism 41. 

Recite God's words in Eden. Genesis 3:15. 

Genesis 3 : 15. I will put enmity — between thee and 
the woman — and between thy seed and her seed ; — it 
shall bruise thy head — and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

" It shall bruise thy head. " Who shall ? 

Christ bruises Satan's head — so that he can not destroy — 
God's people. 

Tell me three things Jesus has done to save us ? 

1. Jesus died for our sins ; — and now he intercedes for 
us — in heaven. 

2. Jesus has shown us God's love — and wins our 
hearts. 

3. Jesus sends us the Holy Spirit — to make us good and 
holy. 

Hymn 42. — We will Stand for the Right. Words from 
Sabbath Chimes. Tune and words in Golden Chain, p. 82. 
10s and 12s. 

This life is a battle with Satan and sin, 

And we are the soldiers the vict'ry to win ; 

And Christ is the Captain of our little band, 

Whatever opposes, for him we shall stand ; 

We will stand for the right, we will stand for the right, 

We will stand for the right, we will stand lor the right. 

To God, for our armor, we'll fail not to go, 
He'll clothe us with truth and with righteousness too ; 
The "gospel of peace" shall our footsteps attend, 
The " good shield of faith " from all harm shall defend. 
We will stand, etc. 



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Salvation our helmet, the Bible our sword, 
Though wily our foes we are " strong in the Lord ;" 
While watching and praying our armor keeps bright, 
Our Jesus will help us to stand for the right. 
We will stand, etc. 

Though little temptations (the worst ones of all) 
Will often beset us, to make us to fall ; 
We'll " stand up for Jesus," and when life is o'er, 
For us he'll be standing on Jordan's bright shore. 
We will stand, etc. 



God keeps his promise, 



Catechism 42. 

Recite Genesis 3:15. 

Genesis 3 : 15. I will put enmity — between thee and 
the woman — and between thy seed and her seed ; — it 
shall bruise thy head — and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

God said to Satan: " Thou shalt bruise his heeV Wliat 
does that mean ? 

Satan and his children — will hurt Christ and his 
people. 

Bid they hurt Jesus Christ ? 

Yes ; they opposed — and killed him. 

Do they hate and vex his people ? Recite 1 John 3:13. 

1 John 3 : 13. Marvel not — if the world hate you. 

" Marvel not n means " do not wonder." Recite Luke 
12 : 4, 5. 

Luke 12 : 4, 5. Be not afraid— of them that kill the 
body — and after that — have no more that they can do ; — 
but . . . fear him — who after he has killed — has 
power to cast into hell, — yea, I say unto you — fear him. 



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Hymn 43. — From Bradbury's Golden Shower, by permis- 
sion. Tune on the cover. 

[It can also be sung to "Scots wha hae," adding or omitting the 
chorus.] 

Firmly brethren, firmly stand, 
All united, heart and hand, 
One unbroken valiant band, 

Dauntless, brave, and true. 
Die on the field of battle, 
Die on the field of battle, 
Die on the field of battle, 

Glory in view. 

Lift your banner, lift it high, 
.Raise the Christian battle-cry, 
Christ, your glorious leader, nigh, 

Calls aloud to you. 
Die on the field of battle, etc. 

Once our father-freemen cried, 
" Victory or death betide !" 
But with Jesus on our side, 

" Death and vict'ry too I" — Chorus. 

Christ our Captain, Christ our boast, 
Quells the dark Satanic host ! 
Fall we then each at his post, 
Fall as heroes do, — Chorus. 



God is true. Serve Christ. 

Catechism 43. 

Recite Genesis 3 : 15. 

Genesis 3 : 15. I will put enmity — between thee and 
the woman — and between thy seed and her seed; — it 
shall bruise thy head, — and thou shalt bruise his heel. 



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God's words come trice. There is enmity between Satan 
and Christ, and between their followers. How do Satan and 
his children fight ? 

1. Christ's soldiers resist temptation. 

2. They tell God's messages. 

3. They try to make people good and happy. 

4. They turn them from Satan to Christ, 
Who fights on their side to help them $ 

The Holy Spirit. He leads Christ's people and he makes 
them strong. 

Recite 2 Corinthians 10 : 4. 

2 Corinthians 10 : 4. The weapons of our warfare are 
not carnal ; but mighty through God. 

Hymn 44. — From Union Hymns and Music. Also in 
Sabbath-School Bell, No. 1, p. 126. 

Live on the field of battle ! 

Be earnest in the fight ; 
Stand forth with manly courage, 

And struggle for the right ! 
Live ! live ! live ! live ! 
On the field of battle ! 

Watch on the field of battle ! 

The foe is everywhere ; 
His fiery darts fly thickly, 

Like lightning through the air. 
Watch ! watch ! watch ! watch ! 
On the field of battle ! 

Pray on the field of battle ! 

God works with those who pray ; 
His mighty arm can nerve us, 

And make us win the day. 
Pray ! pray ! pray ! pray ! 
On the field of battle ! 



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Die on the field of battle ! 

'Tis noble thus to die ; 
God smiles on valiant soldiers — 

Their record is on high. 
Die ! die ! die ! die ! 
On the field of battle. 



-By the Rev. Edwin H. Nevin. 



God is true. All will be as he says it will. 

Catechism 44. 

Recite Genesis 3 : 15. 

Genesis 3 : 15. I will put enmity — between thee and 
the woman — and between thy seed and her seed ; — it 
shall bruise thy head — and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

God's words came true at once, for he set Eve against 
Satan and sin. They have been coming true ever since, and 
the war goes on now as God said it should. Mas God told 
us what the end of it will be ? 

God has told us what the end will be. It is written in 
Revelation 20 and 21. 

What will be the end ? 

1. Satan will be thrown — into the lake of fire. 

2. Jesus will come in the clouds. 

3. The earth and sky will pass away. 

4. The dead and the living — small and great — will stand 
before God. 

5. Whoever is not found written — among Christ's peo- 
ple — will be thrown — into the lake of fire. This is the 
second death. 



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6. There will be — a new heaven — and a new earth ; — 
and Christ's people — will live with God. — " And there shall 
be no more death — neither sorrow — nor crying — neither 
shall there be — any more pain." 

Recite Revelation 21 : 5. 

Revelation 21:5. And he said — write — for these words 
are true and faithful. 

Recite Matthew 24 : 35. 

Matthew 24 : 35. Heaven and earth — shall pass away ; — 
but my words — shall not pass away. 

Hymn 45. — Luther's Hymn. 

Great God, what do I see and hear ? 

The end of all created ! 
The Judge of all men doth appear, 

On clouds of glory seated ! 
The trumpet sounds ! the graves restore 
The dead which they contained before ! 

Prepare, my soul, to meet him. 



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God is faithful. We may safely trust him. 

Catechism 45. 

Recite parts of Deuteronomy, 32 : 4. 

Deuteronomy 32 : 4. He is the Rock, .... a God of 
truth. 

When God says, " wicked man, thou shalt surely die" 
will that man surely die the second death? Ezekiel 
38: 8. 

Ezekiel 33 : 8. That wicked man shall die in his in- 
iquity. 



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What does God promise to those who love him? Romans 
8 : 28. 

Romans 8 : 28. All things — work together for good — 
to those who love God. 

What does God promise to penitent sinners? Acts 16 : 
31. 

Acts 16 : 31. Believe — on the Lord Jesus Christ — and 
thou shalt be saved. 

Hymn 46. — Portuguese Hymn. Child's Hosanna, p. 
115 ; Oriola, p. 194. 

How firm a foundation, 

Ye saints of the Lord, 
Is laid for your faith 

In his excellent word ; 
What more can he say 

Then to you he hath said, 
You who unto Jesus 

For refuge have fled ? 

Fear not, I am with thee, 

Oh ! be not dismayed, 
I, I am thy God, 

And will still give thee aid ; 
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, 

And cause thee to stand, 
Upheld by my righteous, 

Omnipotent hand. 

The soul that to Jesus 

Has fled for repose, 
I will not, I will not 

Desert to his foes ; 
That soul, though all hell 

Shall endeavor to shake, 
I'll never — no, never — 

No, never forsake. 



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Our Father is the one only Lord God, He is in Heav- 
en and everywhere. He knows every thing and can 
do every thing. He was in the beginning, is, and 
ever shall be. He is the Most High. He is holy, 
loving, kind, merciful, gracious, true, and faithful. 
We are to love, fear, worship, and obey him. 

Catechism 46. Review. 

^Recite Mark 12 : 32. 

Mark 12 : 32. There is — one God; — and there is none 
other but he. 

Recite Genesis 1:1. The first verse in the Bible, 

Genesis 1 : 1. In the beginning — God created — the 
heaven and the earth. 

What does our Lord Jesus teach us to say to our God ? 

Our Father who art in heaven. 

What do the living ones in heaven say about our God ? 
Revelation 4 : 8. 

Revelation 4 : 8. Holy, holy, holy, — Lord God Al- 
mighty — which was, and is, and is to come. 

What did the seraphim when on earth say about God ? 
Isaiah 6:3. 

Isaiah 6:3. Holy, holy, holy — is the Lord of hosts : — 
the whole earth is full of his glory. 

Wliat did Moses say about our God? Deuteronomy 
32: 4. 

Deuteronomy 32 : 4. He is the Rock, — his work is per- 
fect : — for all his ways are judgment : — a God of truth, 
and without iniquity, — -just and right is he. 



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What did the apostle Paul call our God in Hebrews 12 : 
23? 

Hebrews 12 : 23. God the judge of all. 

WJiat did the apostle John say of God? 1 John 4 : 16. 

1 John 4:16. God is love. 

Then what ought we to do i Name four things. 

Love him. Fear him. Worship him. Obey him. 

Hymn 47. L. M. 

Great God ! and wilt thou condescend 
To be my Father and my Friend ? 
I a poor child, and thou so high, 
The Lord of earth, and air, and sky ! 

Art thou my Father ! Then I'll be 
A meek, obedient child to thee ; 
And try, in word, and deed, and thought, 
To serve and please thee as I ought. 

Art thou my Father ! I'll depend 
Upon the care of such a friend ; 
And only wish to do and be 
Whatever seemeth good to thee. 

Art thou my Father ! Then, at last, 
When all my days on earth are past, 
Send down and take me, in thy love, 
To be thy better child above. 



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God is our Saviour, We are to repent, believe, 

profess him and obey him. Those who will not 

believe are not saved. 

Catechism 47. 

What did God see when he looked down f Recite Psalm 
14: 3. 

Psalm 14 : 3. They are all gone aside, — they are — all 
together — become filthy ; — there is none that doeth good — 
no, not one. 

Though we are so sinful, what has God done for us ? 
Recite John 3 : 16. 

John 3 : 16. God so loved the world, — that he gave his 
only begotten Son — that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, — but have eternal life. 

Whom did Jesus send to tell this good news ? 

Jesus sent the apostles. — Their word is in the Bible. — 
Now he sends pastors and teachers. 

Whom does the Lord Jesus send from heaven with the 
word ? 

The Lord Jesus — sends the Holy Spirit — with the 
word. 

Wlio are saved? 

Whoever believes in Jesus — is saved. 

Who are condemned and perish? (See John 3.) 

Whoever does not believe in Jesus — is condemned. 

What shall we do then ? Name four things. 

Repent of sin. Believe in Christ. Profess him. Fol- 
low him. 



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Hymn 48. S. M. 

Since Jesus died for all, 
Will all go up to heaven. 

No. Those who will not leave off sin 
Can never be forgiven. 

I who have done so wrong, 

How sorry I should be ! 
How I should love and trust my Lord, 

Who died upon the tree ! 

Yes, I must be his child, 

Must serve and mind him well, 
For those who will not love our Lord, 
Deserve to sink to hell. 
(See 1 Corinthians 16 : 22. John 3 : 18, 36.) 



We are to be baptized and to eat the Lord's Supper. 

Catechism 48. 

Name five things that we must not leave undone. 

1. Be baptized. 2. Eat the Lord's Supper. 3. Meet 
with Christians. 4. Do them good. 5. Obey those who 
are over you. 

Recite Mark 16 : 16. 

Mark 16 : 16. He that believeth — and is baptized — shall 
be saved ; — but he that believeth not — shall be damned. 

Recite the words of Jesus in 1 Corinthians 11 : 24, 25. 

1 Corinthians 11 : 24, 25. "Take — eat: — this is my 
body — which is broken for you: — this do — in remem- 
brance of me." " This cup — is the New Testament — in 
my blood : — this do ye — as oft as ye drink it — in remem- 
brance of me." 



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Hymn 49. — Child's Hosanna, p. 50; Oriola, p. 207; Sab- 
bath-School Bell, No. 1, p. 110. 

How pleasant thus to dwell below 

In fellowship of love ; 
And, though we part, 'tis bliss to know, 

The good shall meet above. 

Chorus. 

Oh ! that will be joyful, joyful, joyful ; 

Oh ! that will be joyful, 
To meet to part no more ; 

To meet to part no more 
On Canaan's happy shore ; 
And sing the everlasting song 

With those who've gone before. 

The children who have loved the Lord 

Shall meet each other there ; 
And teachers gain the rich reward 

Of all their toil and care. 

Chorus. 
Oh ! that will be joyful, etc. 



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Christians are all brothers and sisters to each other. 
We are to meet together, and do each other good. 

Catechism 49. 

Recite Matt. 23 : 8, 9. 

Matt. 23 : 8, 9. Jesus said — One is your Father — which 
is in heaven. — One is your Master — Christ ;— and all ye — 
are brethren. 



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Who are God's family ? 

All the true Christians — in heaven and earth — are God's 
one family. 

Where will they live at last ? (See John 14 : 2, 3.) 

In their Father's house. — Jesus said — " I go to prepare — 
a place for you." 

Recite part of Heb. 10 : 24, 25. 

Heb. 10 : 24, 25. Not forsaking — the assembling — of 
ourselves together, — but exhorting. 

Recite 1 Peter 4 : 10. 

1 Peter 4 : 10. As every man — has received the gift — 
minister the same — one to another. 

Hymn 50.— Tune, " Greenville." Oriola, p. 200. 

" Little children, love each other, 

'Tis the blessed Saviour's rule. 
Every little one is brother 

To his mates in Jesus 1 school. 
We're all children of one Father, 

The great God who lives above ; 
Shall we quarrel ? JSTo ; much rather 

We would be like him, all love. 

" Selfish children's bad behavior 

Shows they love themselves alone ; 
But the children of the Saviour 

Say not any thing's their own. 
All they have they share with others, 

Give kind looks and gentle words ; 
Thus they live like happy brothers, 

And are known to be the Lord's." 



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Christians are to obey those who have the care of them. 
The younger are to submit to the elder, 

Catechism 50. 

Recite Heb. 13 : 17. 

Heb. 13 : 17. Obey them that have the rule over you, 
and submit yourselves ; for they watch for your souls. 

Recite part of 1 Peter 5:5. 

1 Peter 5 : 5. Likewise — ye younger — submit yourselves 
unto the elder. 

Hymn 51. From the S. S. Bell, No. 1, p. 132. 

Oh ! I'll be a good child 

As ever I can be ; 
I'll mind what my elders 

Say to me ; 
I'll read my Bible 

And keep the rule, 
And early come 

To the Sabbath-school. 
Oh ! yes, oh ! yes, 

I love my teacher still ; 
I'll be a good child, 

Indeed I wilL 

On the holy Sabbath-day I love, 
I'll raise my song to the God above ; 
My childish feet shall tread the court 
Where happy Christian flocks resort. 
Oh ! yes, oh ! yes, I love my pastor still ; 
I'll be a good child, indeed I will. 

When all my journey on earth is done, 
I'll quick to the arms of my Saviour run ; 



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He'll fold me close to his gentle breast, 
There safe forever will I rest. 
Oh ! yes, oh ! yes, I love iny Shepherd still ; 
I'll be a good child, indeed I will. — Altered. 



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What we are to do. Our God. 

Catechism 51. 

God is our Father. What must we do then ? 

Love him. Fear him. Worship him. Obey him. 

God is our Saviour. What must we do then $ 

Repent of sin. Believe in Christ. Profess him. Follow 
him. 

And what are we not to leave undone? 

Be baptized. Eat the Lord's Supper. Meet with Christ- 
ians. Do them good. Obey those who are over us. 

Hymn 52. Tune, " De Fleury." Child's Hosanna, p. 
108 ; Oriola, p. 90. 

This God is the God we adore, 

Our Father in Heaven, our Friend, 
Whose love is as great as his power, 

And neither knows measure nor end ; 
In Jesus, the First and the Last, 

Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home : 
We'll praise Him for all that is past, 

And trust Him for all that's to come. 



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Walk with God our Father to his home in Heaven, 
Follow Christ. Do as he did. Hear and obey the 
word of God and the Holy Spirit. Do not hear those 
who do not teaoh the same things that Christ and his 
Apostles teach. 

Catechism 52. 

Recite John 10 : 27, 28. What our Lord Jesus says about 
his sheep. 

John 10 : 27, 28. My sheep hear my voice — and I know 
them — and they follow me. — And I give nnto them eternal 
life. 

Recite Mark 9 : 7. What God the Father said about 
Jesus. 

Mark 9 : 7. This is my beloved Son : — hear him. 

Recite 1 John 4 : 6. What John says of himself and the 
other apostles. 

1 John 4 : 6. We are of God. — He that knoweth God — 
heareth us ; — he that is not of God — heareth not us. — Here- 
by know we — the spirit of truth — and the spirit of error. 
[Explanation.] 

(See also 1 John 4 : 1-6. Isaiah 8 : 19, 20. Gal. 1 : 6-9. 
2 Cor. 11 : 13-15. 2 John 6-11.) 

Hymn 53. "Light." In Child's Hosanna, p. 24; S. S. 
Bell, p. 60; Oriola, p. 219. 

Pleasant is the Sabbath bell 

In the light, in the light, 
Seeming much of joy to tell 

In the light of God. 



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But a music sweeter far, 

In the light, in the light, 
Breathes where angel-spirits are, 

In the light of God. 
Let us walk in the light, 

Walk in the light, 
Let us walk in the light, 

In the light of God. 

Shall we ever rise to dwell, In, etc. 
Where immortal praises swell ? In, etc. 
And can children ever go In, etc. 
Where eternal Sabbaths glow ? In, etc 
Chorus. Let us walk, etc. 

Yes, that bliss our own may be, In, etc. 
All the good shall Jesus see, In, etc. 
For the good a rest remains, In, etc. 
Where the glorious Saviour reigns. In, etc. 
Chorus, Let us walk, etc. 



ADDITIONAL. 



Hymn 54. C. M. Tune in Oriola, p. 144 ; S. S. Bell, 
No. 1, p. 56. 

Gop is in heaven — can he hear 

A feeble prayer like mine ? 
Yes, little child, thou needst not fear, 

He listeneth to thine. 

God is in heaven — can he see 

When I am doing wrong ? 
Yes, that he can. He looks at thee 

All day and all night long. 

God is in heaven — would he know 

If I should tell a lie ? 
Yes, if thou saidst it very low 

He'd hear it in the sky. 

God is in heaven — can I go 

To thank him for his care ? 
Not yet — but love him here below 

And thou shalt praise him there. 

Hymn 55. "God is Good." Tune in Child's Hosanna, 
p. 110 ; S. S. Bell, No. 1, p. 135. 

Morn amid the mountains, 

Lovely solitude ! 
Gushing streams and fountains 

Murmur, " God is good." 



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Murmur, murmur, murmur, 
" God is good." 

Now the glad sun breaking 

Pours a golden flood ; 
Deepest vales awaking, 

Echo, " God is good." 
Echo, echo, echo, 
" God is good." 

Hymns of praise are ringing 

Through the leafy wood ; 
Songsters sweetly singing, 

Warble, " God is good." 
Warble, warble, warble, 
" God is good." 

Wake and join the chorus, 

Child, with soul endued ; 
God, whose smile is o'er us, 

Evermore is good. 
Ever, ever, evermore is good. 

Hymn 56. L. M. 

I must not hurt a little fly ; 

For if I hurt it, it will die. 

My teacher tells me God has said 

We must not hurt what God has made ; 

For he is very kind and good, 

And gives e'en little flies their food ; 

And he loves every little child 

That is good-natured, kind and mild. 

Hymn 57. Tune in Child's Hosanna, p. 109 ; Oriola, p. 
133; S. S. Bell, No. 1, p. 46; Anniversary Hymns, Am. 
S. S. Union, p. IT. 

I think when I read that sweet story of old, 

When Jesus was here among men, 
How he called little children as lambs to his fold, 

I should like to have been with them then. 



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I wish that his hands had been placed on my head, 
That his arms had been thrown around me, 

And that I might have seen his kind look when he said : 
" Let the little ones come unto me." 

Yet still to his footstool in prayer I may go, 

And ask for a share in his love ; 
And if I thus earnestly seek him below, 

I shall see him and hear him above 

In that beautiful place he is gone to prepare, 

For all who are washed and forgiven ; 
And many dear children are gathering there r 

" For of such is the kingdom of heaven." 

Hymn 58. Child's Hosanna, p. 155 ; Anniversary Hymns, 
S. S. XL, p. 12 ; S. S. Bell, No. 1, p. 109 ; Oriola, p. 56. 

"We won't give up the Bible, 

God's holy book of truth ; 
The blessed staff of hoary age, 

The guide of early youth ; 
The lamp which sheds a glorious light 

O'er every dreary road ; 
The voice which speaks a Saviour's love, 

And leads us home to God. 
We won't give up, etc. 

We won't give up the Bible, 

For it alone can tell 
The way to save our ruined souls 

From being sent to hell ; 
And it alone can tell us how 

We may have hopes of heaven, 
That through the Saviour's precious blood 

Our sins may be forgiven. 
We won't, etc. 



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HEAVEN. 

Hymn 59. Tune, Child's Hosanna, p. 120 ; Ann. Hymns, 
Am. S. S. Union, p. 68 ; S. S. Bell, No. 1, p. 32. 

I want to be an angel, 

And with the angels stand, 
A crown upon my forehead, 

A harp within my hand ; 
There, right before my Saviour, 

So glorious and so bright, 
I'd wake the sweetest music, 

And praise him day and night. 

I never should be weary, 

Nor ever shed a tear, 
Nor ever know a sorrow, 

Nor ever feel a fear ; 
But blessed, pure, and holy, 

I'd dwell in Jesus' sight, 
And with ten thousand thousands, 

Praise him both day and night. 

I know I'm weak and sinful, 

But Jesus will forgive, 
For many little children 

Have gone to heaven to live. 
Dear Saviour, when I languish, 

And lay me down to die, 
Oh ! send a shining angel, 

To bear me to the sky. 

Oh ! then I'll be an angel, 

And with the angels stand, 
A crown upon my forehead, 

A harp within my hand. 
And there before my Saviour, 

So glorious and so bright, 
I'll join the heavenly music, 

And praise him day and night. 



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Hymn 60. — Child's Hosanna, p. 58 ; Oriola, p. 140 ; First 
S. S. Bell, p. 44; Ann. Hymns. Am. S. S. Union, p. 65. 

Around the throne of God in heaven, 

Ten thousand children stand, 
Children whose sins are all forgiven, 

A holy, happy band, 
Singing glory, glory, 

Glory be to God on high. 

In flowing robes of spotless white, 

See every one arrayed ; 
Dwelling in everlasting light, 

And joys that never fade. 
Singing, etc. 

What brought them to that world above, 

That heaven so bright and fair, 
Where all is peace, and joy, and love ; 

How came those children there ? 
Singing, etc. 

Because the Saviour shed his blood, 

To wash away their sin ; 
Bathed in that pure and precious flood, 

Behold them white and clean. 
Singing, etc. 

On earth they sought their Saviour's grace, 

On earth they loved his name ; 
So now they see his blessed face, 

And stand before the Lamb, 
Singing glory, etc. 

Hymn 61. — Tune in Child's Hosanna, p. 63 ; Anniver- 
sary Hymns, p. 14 ; Oriola, p. 181 ; Sabbath-School Bell, 



No. 1, p. 31. 



There is a happy land, 

Far, far away, 
Where saints in glory stand, 

Bright, bright as day. 



88 HYMNS FOR THE YOUNGEST. 

Oh ! how they sweetly sing, 
Worthy is our Saviour King ; 

Loud let his praises ring, 
Praise, praise for aye. 

Come to that happy land, 

Come, come away ; 
Why will ye doubting stand, 

Why still delay ? 
Oh ! we shall happy be, 

When, from sin and sorrow free, 
Lord, we shall live with thee, 

Blest, blest for aye. 

Bright, in that happy land, 

Beams every eye ; 
Kept by a Father's hand, 

Love can not die. 
Oh ! then, to glory run ; 

Be a crown and kingdom won ; 
And bright above the sun, 

We'll reign for aye. 

Hymn 62. — Child's Hosanna, p. 65 ; Oriola, p. 179 ; An- 
niversary Hymns American Sunday-School Union, p. 102 ; 
Sabbath-School Bell, No. 1, p. 94. 

Beautiful Zion, built above, 
Beautiful city that I love, 
Beautiful gates of pearly white, 
Beautiful temple — God its light. 
He who was slain on Calvary 
Opens those pearly gates to me. 

Beautiful crowns on every brow, 
Beautiful palms the conquerors show, 
Beautiful robes the ransomed wear, 
Beautiful all who enter there. 
Thither I press with eager feet, 
There shall my rest be long and sweet. 



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Beautiful heaven, where all is light, 
Beautiful angels clothed in white, 
Beautiful strains that never tire, 
Beautiful harps through all the choir. 
There shall I join the chorus sweet, 
Worshipping at the Saviour's feet 

Beautiful throne for Christ our King, 
Beautiful songs the angels sing, 
Beautiful rest, all wanderings cease, 
Beautiful home of perfect peace. 
There shall my eyes the Saviour see, 
Haste to this heavenly home with me. 



PRAISE. 

Hymn 63. — Child's Hosanna, p. 19 ; Sabbath-School Bell, 
No. 2, p. 63 ; also to " Lillie Dale." 

In the rosy light of the morning bright 

Lift the voice of praise on high : 
From the lips of youth to the God of truth, 

Let the joyful echoes fly. 
Sing praises, glad praises, 

Sing, children, sing, 
Let your songs arise to the lofty skies, 

And exult in God our King. 

Let his praise be spread for the Lamb who bled, 

To deliver us from woe : 
He endured the cross, the disgrace, the loss, 

Let his praise forever flow. 
Sing praises, etc. 

On the cross he hung, for the old and young, 

But he loves the children best : 
To his arms we'll fly, on his grace rely, 

And secure his promised rest. 
Sing praises, etc. 



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Now exalted high o'er the earth and sky, 

He delights in mercy still, 
Bends his gracious ear our requests to hear, 

And our longing souls to fill. 
Sing praises, etc. 

Hymn 64. L. M. 

From all that dwell below the skies. 



Let the Creator's praise arise ; 
Let the Redeemer's name be sung, 
Through every land, by every tongue. 

Eternal are thy mercies, Lord, 
Eternal truth attends thy word ; 

Thy name shall sound from shore to shore, 
Till suns shall rise and set no more. 



TEMPERANCE. 

65. TEMPERANCE CALL. 

In Band of Hope Melodies. Published 10 Park Bank, 
Beekman street, New- York. In Anniversary Hymns, 
American Sunday-School Union, p. 15; Sabbath-School 
Bell No. 2, p. 123, tune; p. 151 words. 

(May be sung by boys alone.) 

Children all, both great and small, 
Answer to the temperance call, 
Mary, Margaret, Jane, and Sue, 
Charlotte, Ann, and Fanny too, 
Cheerily, heartily, came along, 
Sign our pledge and sign our song. 



HYMNS FOR THE YOUNGEST. 91 



(May be sung by girls alone.) 

Who have misery, want, and woe ? 
Those who to the bottle go. 
Come then, Joseph, Charles, and Tom, 
Henry, Samuel, James, and John ; 
Cheerily, manfully, come along, etc. 



(Sung by all.) 



No strong drink shall pass our lips ; 
He's in danger who but sips. 
Come then, children, one and all, 
Answer to the temperance call. 
Cheerily, readily, come along, etc. 



66. THE DRINK FOR ME ! 
Tune, " The Rose that all are Praising." 

The drink that's in the drunkard's bowl, 

Is not the drink for me ! 
It kills his body and his soul, 

How sad a sight is he ! 
But there's a drink which God has given, 
Distilling in the showers of heaven, 
In measures large and free ; 
Oh ! that's the drink — 'that's the drink for me. 

The stream that many prize so high, 

Is not the stream for me ! 
For he who drinks it still is dry, 

And so will ever be. 
But there's a stream, so cool and clear, 
The thirsty traveller lingers near, 
Refreshed and glad is he ! 
Oh ! that's the drink — that's the drink for me. 



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67. SNEEZING CHOKUS. 

(To be used at Temperance Meetings, but not in Sunday 
school, or on the Sabbath. Tune see 65.) 

Imitated from the Italian " Delizioso." 

STOMACH OF CHEWER AND SMOKER. 

This is poison without doubt ! 
I must try to throw it out. 

NOSE AND THROAT OF SNUFFER. 

Shee ! Shee ! Snuff's a vici-ee — 
Vici-ee — vici — ee — very vici-ee — 
Why ! I cannot speak or sing ! 
Snuff's a ver-y vi cious thing. 

Also Oriola, 86, p. 61, 237, p. 177 ; Sabbath-School Bell, 
No. 2, p. 158. 



FOR THE OPENING OF SCHOOL. 

Hymn 68. — Tune in Oriola, p. 83 ; Sabbath-School Bell, 
No. 1, p. 53 ; Child's Hosanna, p. 81. 

Oh ! we love to come 
To our Sabbath home, 

When the six days' work is over ; 
And read and sing 
Of our heavenly King, 

And learn to love him more. 

Oh ! we love to come 
To our Sabbath home, 

And learn of our teachers dear, 



HYMNS VOn THE YOUNGEST. 93 

Who point us with love 
To our home above, 
And the crown that awaits us there. 

Oh ! we love to come 
To our Sabbath home, 

But we would not come alone ; 
We would each bring in 
From the depths of sin 

Some wretched wandering one, 

Whose feet now stray- 
In the broad, broad way ; 

Who knows not of God or heaven ; 
And would bid them taste 
Of the blessed feast 

Which our Father's love hath given. 

Then toil we on 
Till the race is won 

And the pearly gates unfold, 
And we find our rest 
On the Saviour's breast 

At home in the city of gold 

— Miss Sarah Hamilton. 

Hymn 69.— Tune in Oriola, p. 23 ; Sabbath-School Bell, 
No. 1, p. 52 ; Anniversary Hymns, American Sunday-School 
Union, p. 56. 

When the morning light 1 

Drives away the night, 
With the sun so bright and full, 

And it draws its fine 
Near the hour of nine, 

I'll away to the Sabbath-school ; 
For 'tis there we all agree, 

All with happy hearts and free, 
And I love to early be 

At the Sabbath-school. 
I'll away ! away ! I'll away ! away ! 

I'll away to Sabbath-school. 



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In the class I meet 

With the friends I greet 
At the time of morning praver ; 

And our hearts we raise 
In a hymn of praise, 

For 'tis always pleasant there : 
When we mingle here no more, 

But have met on Jordan's shore, 
We will talk of moments o'er 

At the Sabbath-school. 
I'll away, etc. 

Hymn 70.— Tune in Sabbath-School Bell, No. 1, p. 56. 

The Sunday-school, that blessed place, 

Oh ! I would rather stay 
Within its walls, a child of grace, 

Then spend my hours in play. 
The Sunday-school, the Sunday-school, 

Oh ! 'tis the place I love, 
For there I learn the golden rule 

Which leads to joys above. 

'Tis there I learn that Jesus died, 

For sinners such as I ; 
Oh ! what has all the world beside 

That I should prize so high ? 
The Sunday-school, etc. 

Then let our grateful tribute rise, 

And songs of praise be given, 
To Him who dwells above the skies, 

For such a blessing given. 

Hymn 11. L. M. 

Lord, how delightful 'tis to be 
At Sunday-school to worship thee ; 
At once we sing, at once we pray — 
We hear of heaven and learn the way. 
Praise God, etc. 



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HYMNS FOR CLOSING SCHOOL. 

Hymn 72.— Oriola, p. 153; Sabbath-School Bell, No. 1, 
p. 73 ; Anniversary Hymns, American Sunday-School 
Union, p. 32. 

Dear Father, ere we part, 

Now let thy grace descend, 
And fill each youthful heart 

With peace from Christ our Friend. 
May showers of blessings from above 
Descend and fill our hearts with love. 

And when our spirits leave 

These tenements of clay, 
May they to God who gave, 

Ascend in endless day, 
And sing with parents, teachers, friends, 
That anthem sweet which never ends. 

Hymn 73. — Child's Hosanna, p. 83 ; Anniversary Hymns, 
American Sunday-School Union, p. 59 ; Sabbath-School 
Bell, No. 1, p. 40. 

Here we meet to part again, 

Here we meet to part again, 

But when we meet on Canaan's plain, 

There'll be no parting there, 

In that bright world above, 

In that bright world above : 

Shout ! shout the victory ! 

We're on our journey home ! 

Here we meet to part again, 

Here we meet to part again, 

But when a seat in heaven we gain, 

There'll be no parting there, 

In that bright world above, 

In that bright world of love ; 



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Shout ! shout the victory ! 
We're on our journey home ! 

Here we meet to part again, etc., 
But there we shall with Jesus reign ; 
There'll be, etc 

Here we meet to part again, etc., 
But when we join the heavenly train, 
There'll be, etc. 



14,. COLLECTION HYMN. 

Tune, " Life let us cherish." 

Take, take our treasure, 

Christ's love to shed abroad ; 
Sweet is our pleasure 

In giving it to God, 
To him who gives us every good, 
Our homes, our friends, our daily food, 
Our infant school, our Sabbath days, 
And books that teach his praise. 
Take, take our treasure, etc. 

Take, take our treasure, etc. , 

That little ones in every land 

God's word may hear and understand, 

And meet to sing and pray and praise, 

Upon the Sabbath days. 

Take, take our treasure, etc. 

Take, take our treasure, etc., 
And oh ! when Jesus calls his own, 
From east and west around his throne, 
May we and they together stand, 
Redeemed at his right band. 
Take, take our treasure, etc. — Original. 
By the author of " I want to be an Angel" 



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Recruiting Hymn 16. — Child's Hosanna, p. 66. 

To our dear Sabbath-school there ought many to come, 
Who spend Sunday wandering or trifling at home ; 
I'll try to bring one, or I'll try to bring two, 
Yes, all that I can, I'm determined to do. 

Let me think ; are there none of the dear ones at home, 
The large or the little, who never have come ? 
Oh ! I'll beg, and I'll coax, try for one, try for two. 
Yes, all that I can, I'm determined to do. 

My cousins and playmates, who live in this street, 
I'll ask them to come, the next time that we meet ; 
Who knows but among them, I'll get one or two — 
For all that I can, I'm determined to do. 

Out there in the lot that I pass every day ; 

How many spend Sunday in frolic or play ! 

If I could but get one of those boys, now, or two, 

To come here next Sabbath, what good it might do. 

God meant all the people who live in this place, 
To hear of his goodness, and join in his praise ; 
So I'll try to bring one, or I'll try to bring two, 
Yes, all that I can, I'm determined to do. 

Perhaps up to heaven some day I may go : 
What glory and blessedness then I shall know ! 
But I want in that glory that many may share, 
That one, two, yes, all I can take may be there. 

— By the author of " I want to be an Angel" 



98 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 



THE LOKFS PKATEK 

Our Father, — which art in Heaven, — hallowed be thy 
name. — Thy kingdom come. — Thy will be done — in earth — » 
as it is done — in heaven. — Give us — this day — our daily 
bread. — And forgive us our trespasses — as we forgive those 
— who trespass against us. — And lead us not into tempta- 
tion, — but deliver us from evil. — For thine is the king- 
dom, — and the power, — and the glory — for ever and ever. — 
Amen. 

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 

And God spake all these words, — saying, — I am the Lord 
thy God, — which brought thee out — of the land of Egypt, — 
out of the house of bondage. 

I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee — any graven image, — 
or any likeness — of any thing — that is in heaven above, — 
or that is in the earth beneath — or that is in the water — 
under the earth : — thou shalt not bow down thyself to them 
— nor serve them : — for I — the Lord thy God — am a jealous 
God, — visiting the iniquity of the fathers — upon the child- 
ren — unto the third and fourth generation — of them that 
hate me ; — and showing mercy unto thousands — of them 
that love me — and keep my commandments. 

III. Thou shalt not take the name — of the Lord thy 
God — in vain : for the Lord will not hold him guiltless — 
that taketh his name in vain. 

IV. Remember the Sabbath-day — to keep it holy. — Six 
days shalt thou labor, — and do all thy work: — but the 
seventh day — is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : — in it 
thou shalt not do any work, — thou, — nor thy son, — nor thy 



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daughter, — thy man-servant, — nor thy maid-servant, — nor 
thy cattle, — nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : — for 
in six days — the Lord made heaven and earth, — the sea — 
and all that in them is, — and rested the seventh day : — 
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day, — and hallow- 
ed it. 

V. Honor thy father and thy mother ; — that thy days 
may be long — upon the land — which the Lord thy God 
giveth thee. 

YI. Thou shalt not kill. 

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 
VIII. Thou shalt not steal. 

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness — against thy 
neighbor. 

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house — thou 
shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, — nor his man-servant, — 
nor his maid-servant, — nor his ox, — nor his ass, — nor any 
thing that is thy neighbor's. 

The Ten Commandments, applied and rhymed for 
Children. 

I. I am your God. Have none but me. 
II. Before no likeness bow thy knee. 

III. Breathe not God's name in rage or play. 

IV. Keep holy all the Sabbath-day. 

V. Honor your parents. Do their will. 
VI. Keep down your temper. Do not kill. 
VII. Let dirty words and ways alone. 

VIII. Take nothing that is not your own. 

IX. Speak truth. Talk not against your brothers. 
X. Nor wish for what belongs to others. — Original. 



100 THE APOSTLES' CEEED. 



THE APOSTLES' OEEED. 

I believe in God the Father almighty, — Creator of heav- 
en and earth ; — and in Jesus Christ, — his only Son, — our 
Lord, — who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, — born of the 
virgin Mary, — suffered under Pontius Pilate, — was cruci- 
fied, dead, and buried ; — *he descended into hell ; — the 
third day he rose again from the dead ; — he ascended into 
heaven, — sitteth at the right hand — of God the Father al- 
mighty ; — from thence he shall come — to judge the living 
and the dead. — I believe in the Holy Ghost ; *the holy Ca- 
tholic Church ; — the communion of Saints ; — *the forgive- 
ness of sins, — the resurrection of the body ; — and life ever- 
lasting. — Amen. 

* This should not be taught to children without great care to prevent 
misapprehension and give the true idea. 



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HYMKS BY FIRST LIKES. 



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54 



^i .i .(Hymn 35,) 

Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, * ^ ^ lg 

Alone, yet not alone am I, " u ^ ^ 

Am I a soldier of the cross? (Lesson 2,) 5 

And now I lay me down to sleep, (Hymn 60,) 87 

Around the throne of God in heaven, v ^ ^ g8 

Beautiful Zion built above, " M ^ Q0 

Children all, both great and small, V ^ ^ 95 

Dear Father, ere we part, *■ „ 38 '^ 60 

Did Jesus hang upon the cross, > (| ^ g2 

Do no sinful action, "' cl g^^ 53 

Every naughty thing I do, M ^ 6S 

Firmly, brethren, firmly stand, • - |( ^ 9Q 

From all that dwell below the skies, v u ^ g3 

God is in heaven— can he hear, u ^ 1Q 

God rides the roaring winds, (Lesson 2',) 29 

Grain upon this card is seen,. - ■ • ^ u 

Great God ! and wilt thou condescend, W ^ 

GreatGod! what do I see and hear ? '(Lesson 22',) 33 

Here are little lambs and sheep, v ^ ^ 

Here we meet to part again, M ^ 19 

Holy, holy, holy One! r:"VlL'j^' ( " 46^ T2 

How firm a foundation, ye saints o A the Lord, A ^ ^ ^ 

How happy are they, " u gg\ 62 

Howling winds and chilling rams, v 



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PAGE 

How pleasant thus to dwell below, (Hymn 49,) 77 

Hush ! little Christian child, ( " 8,) 13 

I have a Father in the promised land, ( " 1,) 3 

I must not hurt a little fly, . ( " 56,) 84 

In the rosy light of the morning bright, «( " 63,) 89 

I want to be an angel, ( " 59,) 86 

I want to be like Jesus, ( " 11,) 16 

I think when I read that sweet story of old, ( " 57,) 84 

I will not fear, (Lesson 9,) 15 

Jesus ! blessed Jesus, (Hymn 19,) 26 

Jesus, I thy lamb would be, (Lesson 33,) 52 

Jesus who lives above the sky, (Hymn 2,) 6 

Let us with a joyful mind, ( " 32,) 50 

Little baby, weak and small, ( " 25,.) 39 

Little children, love each other, ( " 50 ) 78 

Little, gentle breath, ( " 4,) 8 

Live on the field of battle, ( " 44,) 69 

Lord, how delightful 'tis to be, ( " 71,) 94 

Men, for whom the Saviour bled, ( " 41,) 65 

Morn amid the mountains, ( " 55,) 83 

My drink shall be the flowing fountain, ( " 2S,) 44 

My heart leaps up when I behold, < (Lesson 39,) 61 

God ! my little body keep, ( " 4,) 9 

Oh ! do not be discouraged, (Hymn 7,) 12 

Oh ! I'll be a good child, ( " 51,) 79 

Oh ! to come to thee ! ( " 14,) 21 

Oh ! we love to come, ( " 68,) 92 

Our kind heavenly Father (Lesson 20,) 27 

Pleasant is the Sabbath bell, (Hymn 53,) 81 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow, ( " 20,) 27 

Rejoice ! the Lord is king, ( " 6,) 11 

Since Jesus died for all, ( " 48,) 76- 

Sinners, turn ; why will ye die ? ( " 18,) 25 

Some love to drink from the foaming brink, ( " 26,) 40 

Take, take our treasure, ( " 74,) 96 

The day is hot, the air is dry, ( '* 27,) 42 

The drink that's in the drunkard's bowl, ( - " 66,) 91 

The pity of the Lord, ( " 31,) 43 

There is a dreadful hell, ( " 17,) 24 

There is a happy land, ( u 61,) 87 



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There is a land above, 

There's a friend above all others, , 

The Sunday-school, that blessed place, 

The watch is ticking, ticking, , 

This God is the God we adore, 

This is poison without doubt ! , 

This life is a battle with Satan and sin, 

To our dear Sabbath-school, there ought many, , 

'Twas to save our souls from dying, 

We're the lambs of the flock, 

We won't give up the Bible, 

When daily I kneel down to pray, 

When I look up to yonder sky, 

When little Samuel woke, 

When my teacher reads the Bible, 

When the morning light, 

Will you walk into my parlor, 

What have I gained by sin ? 



PAGE 


(Hymn 16,) 


23 


( " 21,) 


3T 


[ " TO,) 


94 


C " 12,) 


IT 


Lesson 52,) 


80 


(Hymn 61,) 


92 


[ " 42,) 


66 


( " 75,) 


97 


( " 23,) 


36 


C « 34,) 


53 


[ " 58,) 


85 


[ " 15,) 


22 


(Lesson 1,) 


5 


;Hymn 9,) 


14 


C " 3,) 


7 


C " 69,) 


93 


[ " 30,) 


46 


[ " 36,) 


56 



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